That is the middle of 102 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 3 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.
102 homes sold in three years: 37 detached houses, 14 semi-detached houses, 24 terraced houses and 27 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.9 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£785K
median sale · 37 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£540K–£1M
Last 12 months
£740K9 sold
Semi-detached houses£421K
median sale · 14 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£350K–£630K
Last 12 months
£350K5 sold
Terraced houses£371K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£447K
Last 12 months
£303K6 sold
Flats and maisonettes£270K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£248K–£428K
Last 12 months
£280K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses36%
Semi-detached houses14%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes26%
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 Painswick’s homes sold for between £287K and £748K
One sale in ten was under £248K and one in ten over £1.1M. 11% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £429,000, sits in the £400–500K band
102 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 3 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £119,000 in 1995 to £352,500 in the last 12 months (£482,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
25 sales in the last 12 months, against 65 in 2002, the busiest year, and 31 in 2011. Sales fell by 34% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 74% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Painswick costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Painswick, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£166K
£210K
£400K
£480K
£553K
£735K
£740K
Semi-detached houses
—
£165K
£408K
£199K
£285K
—
£350K
Terraced houses
£70K
£110K
£220K
£210K
£218K
£258K
£303K
Flats and maisonettes
—
—
£445K
£250K
£285K
—
£280K
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: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
61 new homes have been sold in Painswick since 1995; the share peaked at 26% in 2007.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
28% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.3% sold leasehold in Painswick. 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
Stroud Road is Painswick’s busiest street, with 22 sales in three years
5 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Stroud Road
GL6
22
£277,500
Mostly flats
2
Cheltenham Road
GL6
7
£868,500
Mostly detached houses
3
Vicarage Street
GL6
6
£452,500
Mixed
4
Hyett Close
GL6
6
£220,750
Mixed
5
Kings Mill Lane
GL6
5
£835,000
Mostly detached houses
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.
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 Painswick
What is the average house price in Painswick?
The median home in Painswick sold for £429,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 102 standard sales (£352,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £785,000, semi-detached houses £421,300, terraced houses £370,625 and flats and maisonettes £270,000.
Are house prices going up in Painswick?
The median was £390,000 in 2025, down 7% on 2024 (£420,300), and £352,500 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 Painswick each year?
25 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 44 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.