Drift Way, Cirencester house prices are built from 136 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 28 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £104,500. Across the 10 years from 1999 to 2009 the median moved +158.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +108.3%.
Median price paid
£104,500
Change in cash, 1999–2009
+158.3%
Change in real terms
+108.3%
Median per m²
£2,345
HM Land Registry136 sales33 with floor areaLatest sale 28 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Drift Way, Cirencester prices moved
The chart tracks the median Drift Way, Cirencester house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2009. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £53,650 | £119,128 |
| 2000s | 8 | £117,000 | £213,140 |
The highest yearly median on record for Drift Way, Cirencester is £174,998 in 2009; the lowest is £51,012 in 1995. Across the full 15-year record the cash median has moved from £51,012 to £174,998.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,270, so the real change over the whole record is +153.9% — about +6.88% 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: +158.3% in cash against +108.3% 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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 | 28 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 98 | 30 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 82 | 8 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 54 | 25 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £269,000 | £290,644 |
| 98 | 1 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| 6 | 19 Nov 2021 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £391,667 |
| 95 | 1 Jul 2021 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £309,543 |
| 93 | 11 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £204,000 | £264,132 |
| 73 | 15 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £181,267 |
| 4 | 31 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £346,614 |
| 59 | 20 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £195,000 | £259,877 |
| 94 | 5 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £195,000 | £265,396 |
| 90 | 15 Nov 2016 | Terraced | £180,000 | £251,287 |
| 82 | 29 Mar 2016 | Terraced | £190,000 | £265,248 |
| 99 | 30 Oct 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £162,150 |
| 78 | 15 Jul 2015 | Terraced | £173,000 | £243,930 |
| 59 | 3 Mar 2015 | Terraced | £165,000 | £232,650 |
| 98 | 5 Jun 2014 | Semi-detached | £172,000 | £246,714 |
| 61 | 31 Jan 2014 | Terraced | £152,500 | £218,744 |
| 55 | 21 Oct 2013 | Terraced | £165,000 | £240,589 |
| 67 | 31 Jul 2013 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £247,880 |
| 94 | 6 Jul 2012 | Terraced | £152,000 | £227,034 |
| 87 | 2 Mar 2012 | Flat or maisonette | £113,000 | £168,782 |
| 61 | 19 Apr 2011 | Terraced | £152,500 | £233,723 |
| 65 | 22 Dec 2010 | Flat or maisonette | £104,000 | £166,070 |
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 Drift Way, Cirencester values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 Drift Way | £31,750 (1995) | £170,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 98 Drift Way | £53,000 (1996) | £295,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 82 Drift Way | £50,500 (1995) | £240,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 54 Drift Way | £156,500 (2010) | £269,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.2% |
| 6 Drift Way | £86,000 (1999) | £310,000 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 95 Drift Way | £68,778 (2006) | £245,000 (2021) | +8.8% | +6.4% |
| 93 Drift Way | £51,523 (1995) | £204,000 (2020) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 4 Drift Way | £76,500 (1998) | £265,000 (2019) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
| 59 Drift Way | £62,500 (1998) | £195,000 (2018) | +5.9% | +3.5% |
| 94 Drift Way | £55,950 (1995) | £195,000 (2017) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| 99 Drift Way | £40,000 (1995) | £115,000 (2015) | +5.4% | +3.1% |
| 78 Drift Way | £165,000 (2007) | £173,000 (2015) | +0.6% | -2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Drift Way, Cirencester is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 46 | 33.8% | £130,000 | £37,000 – £269,000 |
| Semi-detached | 42 | 30.9% | £128,000 | £51,560 – £310,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 38 | 27.9% | £71,000 | £31,000 – £170,000 |
| Detached | 10 | 7.4% | £83,000 | £64,600 – £182,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Drift Way, Cirencester
39 of the sales on record are leasehold and 97 freehold — 28.7% 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 £71,000 and the median freehold sale £130,000 — a gap of +83.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 39 | 28.7% | £71,000 |
| Freehold | 97 | 71.3% | £130,000 |
| New build | 24 | 17.6% | £47,625 |
| Existing home | 112 | 82.4% | £116,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -58.9%. 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 Drift Way, Cirencester
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cotswold, 39.3% of 49,354 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 9.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 328 | 0.7% |
| B | 7,113 | 14.4% |
| C | 11,955 | 24.2% |
| D | 15,222 | 30.8% |
| E | 10,054 | 20.4% |
| F | 3,707 | 7.5% |
| G | 975 | 2.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cotswold at £1,251 a month as of Jun 2026 — £869 for a one-bedroom home and £1,342 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £104,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.37% 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 GL7 in Jun 2026. 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 Drift Way, Cirencester
The 2021 census counted 90,832 residents in Cotswold across 40,597 households. 67.3% of those households own their home and 32.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
25 state and independent schools have a GL7 postcode: 21 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmor's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,067 |
| Cirencester Deer Park School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,020 |
| Cirencester Kingshill School | Secondary | Academy converter | 806 |
| Powell's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 421 |
| Cirencester Primary School | Primary | Community school | 336 |
| Fairford Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 298 |
| Ann Edwards Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 206 |
| Stratton Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 191 |
| Chesterton Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 187 |
| Watermoor Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 183 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kemble Rail Station | Rail | 9.5 km |
| Swindon Rail Station | Rail | 17.9 km |
| Stroud (Glos) Rail Station | Rail | 22.5 km |
| Cheltenham Spa Rail Station | Rail | 25.0 km |
Section 09
How Drift Way, Cirencester compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Drift Way, Cirencester sits below that national figure — -33.7%.
Within Cirencester the street ranks 427 of 443 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £225,000 (-53.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,345 per square metre, across 33 of the 136 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 £31,000 to £310,000. 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.
Drift Way, Cirencester sits in Cotswold, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cotswold at 13.4 times median local earnings of £33,872 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
- North Home Road£135,500 median
- Victoria Road£170,000 median
- Stratton Heights£155,500 median
- Station Road£200,000 median
- Perrinsfield£165,250 median
- Ashcroft Gardens£82,500 median
- Partridge Way£200,000 median
- Alexander Drive£257,500 median
- Spine Road£173,750 median
- Kemble Drive£118,000 median
- London Road£228,500 median
- Watermoor Road£175,000 median
- Gloucester Street£217,000 median
- Somerford Road£270,000 median
- Melmore Gardens£76,500 median
- Cheltenham Road£230,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 52 Drift Way6 sales
- 98 Drift Way5 sales
- 82 Drift Way5 sales
- 87 Drift Way4 sales
- 59 Drift Way4 sales
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- 99 Drift Way4 sales
- 65 Drift Way4 sales
- 96 Drift Way4 sales
- 84 Drift Way4 sales
- 6 Drift Way3 sales
- 93 Drift Way3 sales
- 4 Drift Way3 sales
- 61 Drift Way3 sales
- 55 Drift Way3 sales
- 104 Drift Way3 sales
- 83 Drift Way3 sales
- 66 Drift Way3 sales
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- 97 Drift Way3 sales
- 100 Drift Way3 sales
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- 62 Drift Way3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Drift Way, Cirencester?
The median price paid in Drift Way, Cirencester across every sale on the register is £104,500. 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 Drift Way, Cirencester?
136 sales are on record for Drift Way, Cirencester, the most recent completing on 28 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Drift Way, Cirencester house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +158.3% between 1999 and 2009. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +108.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Drift Way, Cirencester house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £174,998, set in 2009. 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 Drift Way, Cirencester?
£2,345 per square metre, from the 33 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 28 Nov 2025. 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, “Drift Way, Cirencester 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.