That is the middle of 154 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.
154 homes sold in three years: 53 detached houses, 52 semi-detached houses, 44 terraced houses and 5 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£335K
median sale · 53 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£300K–£398K
Last 12 months
£323K15 sold
Semi-detached houses£289K
median sale · 52 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£320K
Last 12 months
£288K17 sold
Terraced houses£235K
median sale · 44 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£208K–£273K
Last 12 months
£220K15 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 5 sold, median £161K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses34%
Semi-detached houses34%
Terraced houses29%
Flats and maisonettes3%
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 Glemsford’s homes sold for between £245K and £335K
One sale in ten was under £200K and one in ten over £383K. 27% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £286,250, sits in the £250–300K band
154 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 £51,500 in 1995 to £280,000 in the last 12 months (£240,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
47 sales in the last 12 months, against 112 in 1997, the busiest year, and 36 in 2008. Sales fell by 55% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 86% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Glemsford costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Glemsford, 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
£70K
£106K
£170K
£217K
£250K
£280K
£323K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£72K
£145K
£143K
£173K
£245K
£288K
Terraced houses
£36K
£57K
£125K
£120K
£149K
£190K
£220K
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
128 new homes have been sold in Glemsford since 1995; the share peaked at 24% in 2013.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Glemsford. 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
Kings Road is Glemsford’s busiest street, with 21 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 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
Kings Road
CO10
21
£278,000
Mixed
2
Bells Lane
CO10
11
£300,000
Mixed
3
Egremont Street
CO10
11
£238,500
Mixed
4
Tye Green
CO10
6
£307,250
Mixed
5
Crownfield Road
CO10
6
£287,500
Mixed
6
Brook Street
CO10
6
£232,500
Mostly terraced houses
7
Hunts Hill
CO10
5
£300,000
Mixed
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 Suffolk
Glemsford is the 15th most expensive of 35 towns in Suffolk
Glemsford is in the middle of Suffolk’s 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 Glemsford
What is the average house price in Glemsford?
The median home in Glemsford sold for £286,250 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 154 standard sales (£280,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £335,000, semi-detached houses £288,750, terraced houses £235,000 and flats and maisonettes £161,000.
Are house prices going up in Glemsford?
The median was £310,000 in 2025, up 13% on 2024 (£275,000), and £280,000 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 Glemsford each year?
47 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 71 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Glemsford expensive for Suffolk?
Glemsford is the 15th most expensive of 35 towns of 2,500 or more in Suffolk 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.