Gloucester Road, Newbury house prices are built from 176 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 19 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £241,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +44.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.6%.
Median price paid
£241,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+44.3%
Change in real terms
+4.6%
Median per m²
£2,661
HM Land Registry176 sales21 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Gloucester Road, Newbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Gloucester Road, Newbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2025. 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 | 3 | £100,000 | £222,047 |
| 2000s | 8 | £170,000 | £309,690 |
| 2010s | 6 | £299,975 | £422,965 |
| 2020s | 2 | £424,613 | £433,843 |
The highest yearly median on record for Gloucester Road, Newbury is £496,000 in 2025; the lowest is £79,500 in 1997. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £79,500 to £496,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £168,564, so the real change over the whole record is +200.6% — about +4.01% 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: +44.3% in cash against +4.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 19 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £325,000 |
| 7 | 23 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £424,022 |
| 3 | 27 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 42 | 27 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 31 | 24 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £496,000 | £506,783 |
| 115 | 14 Jan 2025 | Detached | £625,000 | £638,587 |
| 77 | 30 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £396,000 | £416,687 |
| 37 | 14 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £462,500 | £486,660 |
| 82 | 16 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 80 | 15 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £388,966 |
| 29 | 5 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £470,000 | £507,816 |
| 18 | 18 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 21 | 10 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 74 | 17 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £342,000 | £396,237 |
| 38 | 27 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £449,225 | £567,569 |
| 86 | 19 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £376,000 | £475,054 |
| 67 | 12 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £663,306 |
| 71 | 11 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £391,000 | £494,005 |
| 41 | 1 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £505,376 |
| 63 | 15 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £492,500 | £622,245 |
| Merton House, 20 | 26 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £400,000 | £517,906 |
| 115 | 5 Aug 2020 | Detached | £454,000 | £587,824 |
| 75 | 1 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £399,950 | £523,126 |
| 24 | 25 Jan 2019 | Terraced | £336,000 | £439,481 |
| 46 | 17 Jan 2019 | Semi-detached | £358,000 | £468,256 |
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 Gloucester Road, Newbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Gloucester Road | £57,500 (2002) | £325,000 (2026) | +7.5% | +4.6% |
| 3 Gloucester Road | £122,500 (1998) | £500,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 42 Gloucester Road | £317,000 (2014) | £450,000 (2025) | +3.2% | +0.1% |
| 31 Gloucester Road | £290,000 (2007) | £496,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| 115 Gloucester Road | £454,000 (2020) | £625,000 (2025) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 37 Gloucester Road | £115,000 (1997) | £462,500 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 82 Gloucester Road | £79,500 (1997) | £350,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 80 Gloucester Road | £165,000 (2010) | £360,000 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.0% |
| 29 Gloucester Road | £280,000 (2007) | £470,000 (2023) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| 18 Gloucester Road | £234,000 (2005) | £425,000 (2022) | +3.6% | +0.9% |
| 21 Gloucester Road | £249,950 (2007) | £305,000 (2022) | +1.3% | -1.4% |
| 38 Gloucester Road | £155,000 (2001) | £449,225 (2021) | +5.5% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Gloucester Road, Newbury 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 | 86 | 48.9% | £270,000 | £35,000 – £530,000 |
| Terraced | 56 | 31.8% | £250,000 | £68,495 – £496,000 |
| Detached | 17 | 9.7% | £206,000 | £100,000 – £625,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 17 | 9.7% | £152,500 | £57,500 – £325,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Gloucester Road, Newbury
18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 158 freehold — 10.2% 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 £141,250 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +77.0%. 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 | 18 | 10.2% | £141,250 |
| Freehold | 158 | 89.8% | £250,000 |
A further 2 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 Gloucester Road, Newbury
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across West Berkshire, 43.7% of 75,847 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 315 | 0.4% |
| B | 7,915 | 10.4% |
| C | 24,952 | 32.9% |
| D | 27,115 | 35.7% |
| E | 11,327 | 14.9% |
| F | 3,431 | 4.5% |
| G | 792 | 1.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in West Berkshire at £1,303 a month as of Jun 2026 — £911 for a one-bedroom home and £1,471 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £241,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.47% 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.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of RG14, 262 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 97 violent, 5 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 161,448 residents the 2021 census counted in West Berkshire, that is 1.62 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Gloucester Road, Newbury
The 2021 census counted 161,448 residents in West Berkshire across 66,658 households. 68.9% of those households own their home and 31.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
17 state and independent schools have a RG14 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Bartholomew's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,905 |
| Trinity School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,349 |
| Park House School | Secondary | Academy converter | 981 |
| The Winchcombe School | Primary | Community school | 436 |
| Falkland Primary School | Primary | Community school | 422 |
| The Willows Primary School | Primary | Community school | 337 |
| John Rankin Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 311 |
| Speenhamland School | Primary | Academy converter | 290 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 246 |
| St Nicolas C.E. Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 244 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Newbury Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Newbury Racecourse Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Thatcham Rail Station | Rail | 5.6 km |
| Kintbury Rail Station | Rail | 8.5 km |
Section 09
How Gloucester Road, Newbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Gloucester Road, Newbury sits above that national figure — +53.3%.
Within Newbury the street ranks 435 of 791 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £230,000 (+5.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,661 per square metre, across 21 of the 176 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 £35,000 to £625,000. 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.
Gloucester Road, Newbury sits in West Berkshire, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in West Berkshire at 9.6 times median local earnings of £42,135 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
- Andover Road£360,000 median
- Craven Road£143,000 median
- Kingman Way£301,000 median
- Racecourse Road£289,950 median
- London Road£135,000 median
- Walton Way£146,000 median
- Boundary Road£142,000 median
- Two Rivers Way£139,500 median
- Russell Road£205,000 median
- Jago Court£200,000 median
- West Mills£168,000 median
- Windsor Court£137,000 median
- Old College Road£225,000 median
- Mill Lane£139,950 median
- Martingale Chase£186,000 median
- Bartholomew Street£150,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 16 Gloucester Road7 sales
- 10 Gloucester Road7 sales
- 41 Gloucester Road5 sales
- 3 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 82 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 80 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 18 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 75 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 51 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 9 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 43 Gloucester Road4 sales
- 40 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 29 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 38 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 63 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 24 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 22 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 19 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 110 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 60 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 92A Gloucester Road3 sales
- 57 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 33 Gloucester Road3 sales
- 23 Gloucester Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Gloucester Road, Newbury?
The median price paid in Gloucester Road, Newbury across every sale on the register is £241,500. 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 Gloucester Road, Newbury?
176 sales are on record for Gloucester Road, Newbury, the most recent completing on 19 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Gloucester Road, Newbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +44.3% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Gloucester Road, Newbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £496,000, set in 2025. 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 Gloucester Road, Newbury?
£2,661 per square metre, from the 21 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 19 Jan 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, “Gloucester Road, Newbury 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.