Sold Price History


West End, Cheltenham house prices

West End, Cheltenham house prices are built from 141 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 6 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £200,000. Across the 16 years from 2007 to 2023 the median moved -27.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -55.2%.

Median price paid

£200,000

Change in cash, 2007–2023

-27.9%

Change in real terms

-55.2%

Median per m²

£3,146

HM Land Registry141 sales10 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Feb 2026

Section 01

How West End, Cheltenham prices moved

The chart tracks the median West End, Cheltenham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

West End, Cheltenham house prices by year, median price paid 1996 to 2023
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s3£71,750£159,319
2000s4£185,000£337,016
2010s2£258,750£364,838
2020s2£287,000£293,239
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for West End, Cheltenham is £469,000 in 2007; the lowest is £65,000 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £65,000 to £338,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £141,000, so the real change over the whole record is +159.0% — about +3.59% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: -27.9% in cash against -55.2% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Section 02

The most recent sales

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
9 Walton House Court6 Feb 2026Terraced£210,000£210,000
Kates Cottage28 Jul 2025Semi-detached£510,000£521,087
8 Walton House Court18 Jun 2025Terraced£200,000£204,348
Lyon Cottage30 Mar 2025Terraced£450,000£459,783
Leeth House6 Dec 2024Terraced£612,500£644,496
Corstone6 Dec 2024Terraced£450,000£473,507
18 Walton House Court16 Aug 2024Terraced£210,000£220,970
Bee Cottage 2 Chequers31 Jul 2024Terraced£340,000£357,761
Fairholme8 Dec 2023Terraced£338,000£365,195
Antelope Cottage13 Nov 2023Terraced£342,000£369,517
8 Chequers20 Oct 2023Detached£600,000£648,276
10 Walton House Court10 Feb 2023Flat or maisonette£145,000£156,667
The Old Bank House17 Jan 2023Terraced£290,000£313,333
Exchange Cottage4 Oct 2022Detached£320,000£370,748
Fieldfare10 Aug 2022Detached£750,000£868,940
4 Chequers21 Jun 2022Flat or maisonette£180,000£208,546
9 Walton House Court27 May 2022Terraced£189,750£219,842
Kates Cottage30 Nov 2021Semi-detached£495,000£625,403
16 Walton House Court21 Jul 2021Terraced£140,000£176,882
Flat 3 Walton House Court28 May 2021Flat or maisonette£70,000£88,441
Antelope Cottage30 Apr 2021Terraced£275,000£347,446
The Beeches14 Dec 2020Semi-detached£385,000£498,485
Ayton Cottage14 Dec 2020Detached£250,000£323,691
Corstone22 May 2020Terraced£376,250£487,156
Bee Cottage 2 Chequers14 Feb 2020Terraced£287,000£371,598
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

Section 03

Homes that sold twice

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to West End, Cheltenham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
9 WALTON HOUSE COURT West End£54,950 (1996)£210,000 (2026)+4.6%+1.9%
KATES COTTAGE West End£92,000 (1997)£510,000 (2025)+6.3%+3.6%
8 WALTON HOUSE COURT West End£144,460 (2018)£200,000 (2025)+4.8%+0.9%
LYON COTTAGE West End£61,000 (1996)£450,000 (2025)+7.1%+4.4%
LEETH HOUSE West End£95,000 (1995)£612,500 (2024)+6.6%+3.9%
CORSTONE West End£45,000 (1995)£450,000 (2024)+8.3%+5.5%
18 WALTON HOUSE COURT West End£136,000 (2019)£210,000 (2024)+9.1%+4.4%
BEE COTTAGE 2 CHEQUERS West End£287,000 (2020)£340,000 (2024)+4.3%-0.9%
FAIRHOLME West End£55,000 (1999)£338,000 (2023)+7.9%+5.0%
ANTELOPE COTTAGE West End£76,000 (1999)£342,000 (2023)+6.5%+3.7%
10 WALTON HOUSE COURT West End£66,000 (1995)£145,000 (2023)+2.9%+0.2%
EXCHANGE COTTAGE West End£172,000 (2015)£320,000 (2022)+9.3%+6.3%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. West End, Cheltenham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Terraced7452.5%£245,000£61,000 – £710,000
Flat or maisonette3021.3%£75,000£22,000 – £180,000
Detached2517.7%£224,000£45,000 – £750,000
Semi-detached128.5%£330,000£92,000 – £510,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in West End, Cheltenham

42 of the sales on record are leasehold and 99 freehold — 29.8% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £95,026 and the median freehold sale £275,000 — a gap of +189.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold4229.8%£95,026
Freehold9970.2%£275,000
New build21.4%£220,000
Existing home13998.6%£200,000
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +10.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 3 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Section 07

Living in West End, Cheltenham

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cheltenham, 45.3% of 65,902 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A3710.6%
B5,9739.1%
C23,49535.7%
D24,62137.4%
E8,79113.3%
F2,0973.2%
G5540.8%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in Cheltenham.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cheltenham at £1,254 a month as of Jun 2026 — £865 for a one-bedroom home and £1,346 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £200,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.52% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

No street-level crime was published for GL54 in Jun 2026 by Gloucestershire. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around West End, Cheltenham

The 2021 census counted 118,836 residents in Cheltenham across 52,899 households. 64.3% of those households own their home and 35.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

16 state and independent schools have a GL54 postcode: 14 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
The Cotswold AcademySecondaryAcademy converter1,564
Winchcombe SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter515
Bourton-on-the-Water Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter341
Winchcombe Abbey Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter261
The Rissington SchoolPrimaryCommunity school256
Northleach Church of England Primary SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school114
Temple Guiting Church of England SchoolPrimaryVoluntary controlled school105
Gretton Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter92
Stow-on-the-Wold Primary SchoolPrimaryCommunity school91
Isbourne Valley SchoolPrimaryCommunity school80
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
Winchcombe (Gloucs Warwicks Railway)Tram11.2 km
Winchcombe (Gloucs Warwicks Railway)Metro or underground11.2 km
Toddington (Gloucs Warwicks Railway)Tram11.7 km
Toddington (Gloucs Warwicks Railway)Metro or underground11.7 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How West End, Cheltenham compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. West End, Cheltenham sits above that national figure — +27.0%.

Within Cheltenham the street ranks 1286 of 2232 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £194,995 (+2.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,146 per square metre, across 10 of the 141 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £22,000 to £750,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

West End, Cheltenham sits in Cheltenham, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cheltenham at 7.8 times median local earnings of £41,147 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to Cheltenham house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in West End, Cheltenham?

The median price paid in West End, Cheltenham across every sale on the register is £200,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in West End, Cheltenham?

141 sales are on record for West End, Cheltenham, the most recent completing on 6 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have West End, Cheltenham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -27.9% between 2007 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -55.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were West End, Cheltenham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £469,000, set in 2007. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in West End, Cheltenham?

£3,146 per square metre, from the 10 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 6 Feb 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “West End, Cheltenham house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.