Stroud district's average home reached £355,953 in June 2026, up 6.4% in a year. That is the fastest rise of the six Gloucestershire districts and beats the England average of 1.8%.

The average home in Stroud district was worth £355,953 in June 2026, up £21,532 on a year earlier. That is a rise of 6.4%, and it is the fastest of the six Gloucestershire districts. It is also more than three times the England average.

The figures come from the HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for June 2026, published on 19 August. One thing to hold on to before the numbers start: the UKHPI average is a mean, not a median. It is pulled upward by the district’s most expensive sales, so it sits well above the price of a typical Stroud town house. It is the right figure for direction of travel rather than for what you would pay.

Stroud is rising faster than anywhere else in the county

England as a whole rose 1.8% in the year to June, and the South West 1.9%. Gloucestershire county averaged 4.4%. Stroud’s 6.4% is ahead of all three, and ahead of every neighbouring district. (UK House Price Index, June 2026)

District Average price, June 2026 Change on a year
Cotswold £411,764 +3.2%
Stroud £355,953 +6.4%
Tewkesbury £329,883 +5.9%
Cheltenham £325,399 +2.2%
Forest of Dean £288,524 +1.9%
Gloucester £240,887 +5.6%
Bar chart of annual house price change to June 2026 for the six Gloucestershire districts, England and the South West, with Stroud highest at 6.4%
Annual change in average house price, June 2025 to June 2026. Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index. Graphic by Stroud Today

Set against all 295 local authority districts in England, Stroud ranks 40th for annual growth. That is the top seventh of the country. It is worth saying what the other end of the table looks like: 62 of those 295 districts recorded a fall over the same twelve months. Rising at all put Stroud in the majority; rising at 6.4% did not.

Stroud is now the second most expensive district in Gloucestershire, behind Cotswold, and the gap has narrowed. A year ago Cotswold’s average was £64,731 above Stroud’s. It is now £55,811.

Terraced and semi-detached homes led the rise

The district’s growth was not evenly spread. The cheaper end of the market moved fastest, and flats were left behind.

Property type Average, June 2026 Change on a year
Detached £562,652 +5.9%
Semi-detached £342,077 +7.4%
Terraced £287,468 +7.2%
Flat or maisonette £166,368 +3.6%

A detached house in the district now costs roughly 3.4 times a flat. The first-time buyer average reached £291,914, up 6.9% on the year, and rising faster than the market as a whole. (UK House Price Index, June 2026)

Where the turn happened

Stroud spent most of 2025 going backwards. The district’s average price was falling year on year in June 2025, by 2.1%, and it was still down 0.5% on the year in January 2026. The recovery is recent and it has been steep.

  • January 2026: £340,297, down 0.5% on the year
  • February 2026: £349,910, up 3.3%
  • March 2026: £351,988, up 3.8%
  • April 2026: £350,956, up 5.1%
  • May 2026: £352,349, up 5.0%
  • June 2026: £355,953, up 6.4%

Some of that widening annual gap is arithmetic rather than acceleration: prices were unusually weak in the summer of 2025, so this year’s figures are being measured against a low base. Month on month, June was up 1.0%.

A warning about sales volumes

Land Registry publishes a count of completed sales alongside the prices, but it lags: the counts for May and June 2026 are blank in the June release, and recent months are revised upward as more transactions are registered.

The most recent count that can be read safely is March 2026, when 127 homes changed hands in the district. March 2025 recorded 344. That is not a collapse in the market, it is the stamp duty deadline: the thresholds changed on 1 April 2025, and buyers rushed to complete before it. April 2025 fell straight back to 87. Comparing March to March across those two years measures the deadline, not demand.

What it means for you

  • If you are selling, the district’s momentum is real but the mean average is not your asking price. Our Stroud house prices page carries the median of actual completed sales by town and parish, which is the closer guide: £335,000 across the district, £320,000 in Stroud town itself.
  • If you are buying your first home, the figure that matters moved against you faster than the market did. The first-time buyer average rose 6.9%, to £291,914.
  • If you own a terraced or semi-detached house, you are in the part of the district that moved most this year, up 7.2% and 7.4%.
  • Do not read one month as a trend. UKHPI figures are revised for several months after first publication. May 2026 was first published as £348,815 and has since been restated at £352,349, a £3,534 difference in one month’s data.

The next UK House Price Index release, covering July 2026, is due in mid-September. For what is being built and where, see our Stroud planning news.

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