That is the middle of 4,487 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.4 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
39% of Gloucester’s sales are semi-detached houses
4,487 homes sold in three years: 887 detached houses, 1,741 semi-detached houses, 1,129 terraced houses and 730 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£383K
median sale · 887 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£333K–£450K
Last 12 months
£395K215 sold
New build
£382K
Semi-detached houses£275K
median sale · 1,741 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£240K–£317K
Last 12 months
£283K494 sold
New build
£280K
Terraced houses£218K
median sale · 1,129 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£185K–£250K
Last 12 months
£215K307 sold
New build
£275K
Flats and maisonettes£140K
median sale · 730 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£115K–£164K
Last 12 months
£143K214 sold
New build
£176K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 39% of sales
Detached houses20%
Semi-detached houses39%
Terraced houses25%
Flats and maisonettes16%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Gloucester’s homes sold for between £194K and £325K
One sale in ten was under £140K and one in ten over £405K. 47% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £255,000, sits in the £250–300K band
4,487 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.4 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £47,000 in 1995 to £255,000 in the last 12 months (£201,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
1,230 sales in the last 12 months, against 3,231 in 2006, the busiest year, and 1,431 in 2008. Sales fell by 44% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 44% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Gloucester costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Gloucester, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£78K
£123K
£225K
£225K
£255K
£329K
£395K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£75K
£143K
£153K
£175K
£230K
£283K
Terraced houses
£36K
£54K
£117K
£128K
£140K
£175K
£215K
Flats and maisonettes
£27K
£42K
£115K
£113K
£110K
£128K
£143K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 1.4% of sales in the last 12 months
7,094 new homes have been sold in Gloucester since 1995; the share peaked at 25% in 2010.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £289,995
against £252,500 for a home sold on, 15% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
17% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.3% sold leasehold in Gloucester. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Longhorn Avenue is Gloucester’s busiest street, with 45 sales in three years
312 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 104 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Longhorn Avenue
GL1
45
£149,000
Mostly flats
2
Emery Avenue
GL1
40
£175,750
Mostly flats · new builds
3
Pennings Close
GL4
34
£266,471
Mixed · new builds
4
Linden Road
GL1
33
£235,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Painswick Road
GL4
33
£206,000
Mixed
6
Hucclecote Road
GL3
33
£137,000
Mostly flats
7
New Orchard Avenue
GL4
30
£293,995
Mixed · new builds
8
Heathville Road
GL1
29
£137,000
Mostly flats
9
Cheltenham Road
GL2
28
£371,750
Mixed
10
Tuffley Lane
GL4
26
£270,000
Mixed
11
Curlew Road
GL4
26
£242,500
Mixed
12
Bodiam Avenue
GL4
23
£270,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Stanley Road
GL1
21
£188,000
Mostly terraced houses
14
Lavington Drive
GL2
20
£333,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Oxstalls Drive
GL2
19
£325,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Hempsted Lane: £577,500
Gloucester median£255K
Hempsted Lane£578K
Sylvanus Drive£495K
Porter Close£490K
Kenilworth Avenue£478K
Gambier Parry Gardens£473K
Cheapest streets
Henry Street: £63,500
Gloucester median£255K
Henry Street£64K
Boddington Drive Kingsway£80K
Westgate Street£80K
Burrows Close£99K
Parliament Street£100K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 9.1 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Gloucestershire
Gloucester is the 43rd most expensive of 48 towns in Gloucestershire
Gloucester is one of Gloucestershire’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Gloucester
What is the average house price in Gloucester?
The median home in Gloucester sold for £255,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 4,487 standard sales (£255,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £383,000, semi-detached houses £275,000, terraced houses £218,000 and flats and maisonettes £140,000.
Are house prices going up in Gloucester?
The median was £260,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£255,000), and £255,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Gloucester each year?
1,230 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 1,825 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Gloucester?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Hempsted Lane (GL2, £577,500), Sylvanus Drive (GL2, £494,997) and Porter Close (GL2, £490,000).
How much does a new build cost in Gloucester?
New homes sold for a median £289,995 over three years, against £252,500 for homes sold on. New builds were 4.4% of sales.
Is Gloucester expensive for Gloucestershire?
Gloucester is the 43rd most expensive of 48 towns of 2,500 or more in Gloucestershire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.