GL52 house prices are built from 31,389 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £198,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +26.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -9.7%.
Median price paid
£198,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+26.0%
Change in real terms
-9.7%
Median per m²
£2,415
HM Land Registry31,389 sales3,936 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026
Section 01
How GL52 prices moved
The chart tracks the median GL52 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | 5 | £70,000 | £155,433 |
| 2000s | 10 | £176,250 | £321,076 |
| 2010s | 10 | £235,000 | £331,350 |
| 2020s | 7 | £333,500 | £340,750 |
The highest yearly median on record for GL52 is £365,000 in 2024; the lowest is £63,400 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £63,400 to £334,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £140,778, so the real change over the whole record is +137.3% — about +2.83% 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: +26.0% in cash against -9.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Hayes Road | 26 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 12 Hopwood Grove | 23 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| 9 BERKELEY COURT High Street | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £133,500 | £133,500 |
| 4 Yarlington Close | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £625,000 | £625,000 |
| 85 Pennine Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 62 Redmarley Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £132,000 | £132,000 |
| 55 Pecked Lane | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £288,000 | £288,000 |
| THE OAKS Harp Hill | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £1,720,000 | £1,720,000 |
| 19 Tom Price Close | 9 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £254,000 | £254,000 |
| 36 Sunrise Avenue | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 224 London Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £1,850,000 | £1,850,000 |
| 14 Clover Drive | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £675,000 | £675,000 |
| 21 Beaufort Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| 2 Bluebell Court | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £228,000 | £228,000 |
| 4 Walnut Close | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £1,225,000 | £1,225,000 |
| 1 Mirabelle Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £620,000 | £620,000 |
| 22 Millham Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| 49 Sandown Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Detached | £563,000 | £563,000 |
| 38 Vale Road | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £440,000 | £440,000 |
| 16 Humber Road | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £315,500 | £315,500 |
| 3 Highnam Place | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| 15 Clover Drive | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £629,500 | £629,500 |
| 37 Ryeworth Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 23 Harvesters View | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 34 Keepers Mill | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
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 GL52 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Hayes Road | £76,000 (1996) | £370,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 12 Hopwood Grove | £37,500 (1997) | £110,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 9 BERKELEY COURT High Street | £99,999 (2006) | £133,500 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| 4 Yarlington Close | £295,000 (2003) | £625,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 62 Redmarley Road | £130,995 (2008) | £132,000 (2026) | +0.0% | -2.8% |
| 85 Pennine Road | £161,000 (2014) | £285,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +1.8% |
| THE OAKS Harp Hill | £265,000 (2000) | £1,720,000 (2026) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 19 Tom Price Close | £75,000 (2000) | £254,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 36 Sunrise Avenue | £249,350 (2012) | £385,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.2% |
| 14 Clover Drive | £575,000 (2017) | £675,000 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.6% |
| 2 Bluebell Court | £179,500 (2007) | £228,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| 224 London Road | £730,000 (2012) | £1,850,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. GL52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 8,972 | 28.6% | £215,000 | £9,000 – £1,780,000 |
| Detached | 8,067 | 25.7% | £330,000 | £1,800 – £4,720,000 |
| Terraced | 8,008 | 25.5% | £179,950 | £4,950 – £1,597,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 6,342 | 20.2% | £129,950 | £6,000 – £1,080,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in GL52
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 6,518 certificates cover GL52, and their median floor area is 77 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 77 m² | about 829 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 57 m² | about 614 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 107 m² | about 1,152 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 28.2% | 1,837 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 9.1% | 592 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in GL52
6,649 of the sales on record are leasehold and 24,740 freehold — 21.2% 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 £129,250 and the median freehold sale £229,998 — a gap of +77.9%. 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 | 6,649 | 21.2% | £129,250 |
| Freehold | 24,740 | 78.8% | £229,998 |
| New build | 3,666 | 11.7% | £249,995 |
| Existing home | 27,723 | 88.3% | £190,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +31.6%. 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 1,374 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 GL52
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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 371 | 0.6% |
| B | 5,973 | 9.1% |
| C | 23,495 | 35.7% |
| D | 24,621 | 37.4% |
| E | 8,791 | 13.3% |
| F | 2,097 | 3.2% |
| G | 554 | 0.8% |
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 £198,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.60% 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 GL52 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 GL52
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.
13 state and independent schools have a GL52 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleeve School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,903 |
| Pittville School | Secondary | Foundation school | 858 |
| Bishops Cleeve Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 577 |
| Grangefield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 421 |
| Woodmancote School | Primary | Community school | 418 |
| Oakwood Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 310 |
| Prestbury St Mary's Church of England Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 238 |
| Holy Apostles' Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 207 |
| Glenfall Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 198 |
| Gotherington Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 197 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cheltenham Racecourse (Gloucs Warwicks Railway) | Tram | 0.9 km |
| Cheltenham Racecourse (Gloucs Warwicks Railway) | Metro or underground | 0.9 km |
| Cheltenham Spa Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Gotherington (Gloucs Warwicks Railway) | Metro or underground | 5.4 km |
Section 09
How GL52 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. GL52 sits above that national figure — +25.7%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,415 per square metre, across 3,936 of the 31,389 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 £1,800 to £4,720,000. 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.
GL52 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
Sectors inside GL52
- GL52 2£163,000 median
- GL52 3£249,950 median
- GL52 5£187,995 median
- GL52 6£199,800 median
- GL52 7£215,000 median
- GL52 8£188,421 median
- GL52 9£300,000 median
The closest districts
- GL502.7 km · £180,000
- GL514.3 km · £160,000
- GL534.6 km · £250,000
- GL310.3 km · £172,000
- GL2010.4 km · £165,000
- GL414.1 km · £142,000
- GL114.4 km · £112,500
- GL5414.9 km · £275,000
This district mostly covers Cheltenham.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in GL52?
The median price paid in GL52 across every sale on the register is £198,000. 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 GL52?
31,389 sales are on record for GL52, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have GL52 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +26.0% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -9.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were GL52 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £365,000, set in 2024. 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 GL52?
£2,415 per square metre, from the 3,936 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 26 Jun 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, “GL52 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.