That is the middle of 79 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 5.6 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.
A third of Coleford’s sales are semi-detached houses
79 homes sold in three years: 23 detached houses, 29 semi-detached houses and 27 terraced houses.
Detached houses£400K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£548K
Last 12 months
£385K5 sold
Semi-detached houses£273K
median sale · 29 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£211K–£290K
Last 12 months
£285K12 sold
Terraced houses£240K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£210K–£270K
Last 12 months
£218K10 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses29%
Semi-detached houses37%
Terraced houses34%
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 Coleford’s homes sold for between £220K and £339K
One sale in ten was under £195K and one in ten over £510K. 38% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £272,500, sits in the £250–300K band
79 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.6 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £49,000 in 1995 to £272,500 in the last 12 months (£224,250 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
27 sales in the last 12 months, against 48 in 1999, the busiest year, and 19 in 2018. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 62% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Coleford costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Coleford, 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
£62K
£122K
£215K
£266K
£345K
£360K
£385K
Semi-detached houses
£47K
£68K
£150K
£162K
£157K
£240K
£285K
Terraced houses
£42K
£56K
£137K
£140K
£164K
£186K
£218K
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
60 new homes have been sold in Coleford since 1995; the share peaked at 31% in 2003.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Coleford. 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
Highbury Street is Coleford’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
6 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Highbury Street
BA3
13
£245,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Mendip Vale
BA3
7
£292,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Beacon View
BA3
7
£211,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Farley Dell
BA3
6
£244,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Alfords Ridge
BA3
5
£290,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Anchor Road
BA3
5
£280,000
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.
Coleford’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Coleford
What is the average house price in Coleford?
The median home in Coleford sold for £272,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 79 standard sales (£272,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £400,000, semi-detached houses £273,000 and terraced houses £240,000.
Are house prices going up in Coleford?
The median was £267,500 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£270,000), and £272,500 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 Coleford each year?
27 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 30 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.
Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0