Forest of Dean
HR8 house prices in Forest of Dean
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for Forest of Dean, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£315,000
Range £164,500–£602,350 · 250 real sales
- Real sales
- 250
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 31 Jul 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in HR8: the typical (median) sold price is £315,000, above the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). HR8 is an active market, with about 20 recorded sales a month. By property type, 47% were detached homes (typically £395,000) and 23% were semi-detached homes (typically £273,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Council tax on a Band D home there is £2,443 a year: Forest of Dean's published charge for 2026-27.
Source: Council tax: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Forest of Dean, 2026-27.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on HR8: a steady market, so let the sold prices lead
Roughly 20 homes a month change hands in HR8, so there is a fair body of evidence, but not enough of it for a trustworthy twelve-month trend.
When selling here, £315,000 is only the middle of a market that runs from £164,500 to £602,350, so lean on the nearest like-for-like sale rather than the middle figure; sales arrive at a steady pace, so there is no need to rush to a low price.
Sell houseFor buyers, typical prices in HR8 sit above the UK average, so a premium over the average needs a reason you can see in the sold homes of the same type.
Worth checking before you commit: planning history nearby (8 applications on record within 500 m), long-term flood risk and council tax (Band D is £2,443 a year); your conveyancer should look at the title too.
With averages this broad, the free HR8 OfferCheck adds flood, crime, planning and council tax from the official sources.
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At a glance
HR8 in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£315,000
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
19.7
Across 250 sales
Council tax, Band D
£2,443
A year
The data, honestly
House prices in HR8
These 250 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in HR8 by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £395,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £102,500.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 107 | £395,000 | £299,998–£684,800 |
| Semi-detached | 53 | £273,000 | £210,000–£382,260 |
| Terraced | 48 | £224,000 | £163,500–£288,000 |
| Flat / maisonette | 18 | £102,500 | £82,500–£229,500 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 31 Jul 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in HR8
The quarterly typical price fell 23.2%, from £345,000 in Q3 2025 (57 sales) to £265,000 in Q3 2026 (21 sales).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2025 | £345,000 | 57 |
| Q4 2025 | £310,000 | 77 |
| Q1 2026 | £315,000 | 49 |
| Q2 2026 | £325,000 | 46 |
| Q3 2026 | £265,000 | 21 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 31 Jul 2025 and 21 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of HR8 prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most HR8 homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £164,500 and £602,350, around a typical £315,000.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 31 Jul 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in HR8
Detached homes were 47% of recorded sales (107 of 226). 90% of sales were freehold and 10% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached47%
- Semi-detached23%
- Terraced21%
- Flat / maisonette8%
Tenure
- Freehold90%
- Leasehold10%
See the figures
226 freehold (90%) and 24 leasehold (10%) across the 250 most recent recorded sales in HR8, including 13 new-build sales. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 31 Jul 2025 and 21 Aug 2026.
Sold twice: what the same home resold for
The strongest price signal there is: the same door, sold twice. Change shown in £, %, and per year. A big % over two decades is smaller than it looks.
LEADON BANK, ORCHARD LANE, LEDBURY
£195,000 (2025)£125,000 (2026)-35.9% over 0.6 yrs (-52.4%/yr)
47, BRIDGE STREET, LEDBURY
£219,000 (2025)£195,000 (2026)-11% over 0.6 yrs (-18.2%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where HR8 sits in Forest of Dean
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in HR8
2, OLD MARKET COURT, LEDBURY
Terraced · Freehold · 21 Aug 2026
£265,000
80, BIDDULPH WAY, LEDBURY
Detached · Freehold · 18 Aug 2026
£350,000
GREENBANK, THE COMMON, LEDBURY
Detached · Freehold · 13 Aug 2026
£600,000
80, BROWNING ROAD, LEDBURY
Terraced · Freehold · 11 Aug 2026
£250,000
7, HAZLE CLOSE, LEDBURY
Detached · Freehold · 11 Aug 2026
£282,500
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). HR8 includes the Backbury ward.
In plain English
What the Forest of Dean (HR8) numbers mean
- The headline number blends very different homes: detached homes sold for a typical £395,000 against £102,500 for flats: about 3.9 times as much. Use the figure for your type of home, not the mix.
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £164,500 and £602,350, so the median says little about any one home.
- Nearly all of these sales (90%) were freehold, which points to mostly houses.
- This is an active district: about 20 recorded sales a month.
Based on 250 recorded sales between 31 July 2025 and 21 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Area data
What else the records hold on HR8
Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.
Council tax
What council tax costs in HR8
£2,443
Band D a year in Forest of Dean, 2026-27: the benchmark band every English authority is compared on.
All bands
| Band | 1991 value | A year |
|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,629 |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £1,900 |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,172 |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,443 |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £2,986 |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,529 |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,072 |
| H | over £320,000 | £4,887 |
These are Forest of Dean's charges for 2026-27, the authority HR8 falls in, not an estimate for any individual home. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency and we never guess it; look up a band on GOV.UK and read your row. Bands reflect what a home was worth on 1 April 1991, not today.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · 8 of 8 bands published for Forest of Dean · data to 2026-27 financial year
Schools
Schools near HR8
3
open schools within 3 km, nearest Ledbury Primary School.
All schools
Ledbury Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · HR8 2BE
1.2 km
Good · 2023
John Masefield High School
Middle deemed secondary · Academies · HR8 2HF
2.2 km
Good · 2013
Queenswood School
Special schools · HR8 2PZ
2.8 km
Not graded
School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the HR8 district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 3 open schools within 3 km, 2 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near HR8
What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.
Planning applications
Planning activity around HR8
8
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 19 October 2026.
Recent applications
Hereford/P262555/BGPUndecided
380 m
Submission of a Biodiversity Gain Plan in relation to planning permission 261252
Received 2026-08-24
Hereford/P261252/FConditions
380 m
The construction of a 40m x 20m equine arena for private use, together with associated fencing and biodiversity enhancement works. Change of use of the land under the arena from agricultural to equine.
Received 2026-04-28 · decided 2026-07-23
Hereford/P251527/FConditions
317 m
Proposed change of use from agricultural to mixed use - agricultural and equestrian. No operational development.
Received 2025-05-22 · decided 2025-08-07
Hereford/P242336/FConditions
341 m
Proposed removal of condition 3 of planning permission MH94/0153 (Conversion to dwelling) - the condition on the planning permission nolonger meets the 6 tests of planning conditions.
Received 2024-09-10 · decided 2024-11-20
Hereford/P241839/UPermitted
341 m
Application for a Certificate of lawfulness for existing occupation ofPichells Place, Wall Hills Farm, Ledbury, in breach of the Agricultural Occupancy Condition for a continuous period in excess of 10 years which continues at the date of application.
Received 2024-07-19 · decided 2024-08-30
Hereford/P180915/FHConditions
291 m
Alterations to existing property and erection of two storey extension.
Received 2018-02-27 · decided 2018-11-07
Applications are matched within 500 m of the HR8 district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 8 held; run a live planning search for HR8 for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 8 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 19 October 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for HR8
Decile 5 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled HR8 postcodes, deprivation runs decile 4 to decile 9, with a median of decile 5 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
HR8 1LU, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 5 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so HR8 spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in HR8: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Cost to run
Two sources, one table
What it costs to run a home in HR8, band by band
Forest of Dean's council tax for 2026-27 set against the HR8 median sold price of £315,000 across 250 recorded sales: the annual running cost beside the purchase price, which neither source shows on its own.
| Band | 1991 valueVOA basis | A yearForest of Dean | A month÷ 12 | Of the median÷ £315,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £1,629 | £136 | 0.52% |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £1,900 | £158 | 0.60% |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £2,172 | £181 | 0.69% |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £2,443 | £204 | 0.78% |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £2,986 | £249 | 0.95% |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £3,529 | £294 | 1.12% |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £4,072 | £339 | 1.29% |
| H | over £320,000 | £4,887 | £407 | 1.55% |
The last column is the band's annual charge divided by the HR8 median sold price. A comparison of two published figures, not a rate anyone charges. It is not a mapping from price to band: a band records what a home was worth on 1 April 1991 and is set by the Valuation Office Agency, so it cannot be worked out from a 2020s sale price. Look up a specific band on GOV.UK. Instalment counts vary by authority, so the monthly column is simply the year over twelve.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Median across 250 recorded sales. · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, Forest of Dean, 2026-27.
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in HR8 sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 237 distinct addresses in the records we hold for HR8. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
2, OLD MARKET COURT, LEDBURY
HR8 2GE · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£265,000
2026-08-21
80, BIDDULPH WAY, LEDBURY
HR8 2HN · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£350,000
2026-08-18
GREENBANK, THE COMMON, LEDBURY
HR8 1LU · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£600,000
2026-08-13
80, BROWNING ROAD, LEDBURY
HR8 2FT · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£250,000
2026-08-11
7, HAZLE CLOSE, LEDBURY
HR8 2XX · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£282,500
2026-08-11
19, LOWER ROAD, LEDBURY
HR8 2DH · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£223,000
2026-08-03
4, HALLWOOD DRIVE, LEDBURY
HR8 2FY · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£205,000
2026-07-31
BORN COURT, NEW STREET, LEDBURY
HR8 2DX · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 5 recorded sales
£99,950
2026-07-31
4, ORCHARD RISE, LEDBURY
HR8 2GB · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£345,000
2026-07-30
BRAMLEY HOUSE, LEDBURY
HR8 2UG · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£505,000
2026-07-24
21, BROWNING ROAD, LEDBURY
HR8 2GA · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£220,000
2026-07-24
4, MILLER CRADDOCK WAY, LEDBURY
HR8 2XT · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£187,500
2026-07-15
24, KINGSMEAD, LEDBURY
HR8 2LS · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£320,000
2026-07-14
35, BIDDULPH WAY, LEDBURY
HR8 2HP · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£385,000
2026-07-13
4, ELTON DRIVE, LEDBURY
HR8 2GS · Terraced · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£117,500
2026-07-10
5, ARROW VIEW, LEDBURY
HR8 2FR · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£517,500
2026-07-09
MABELS COURT, MABELS FURLONG, LEDBURY
HR8 2HG · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£678,000
2026-07-08
10, TARGET CLOSE, LEDBURY
HR8 2LR · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£225,000
2026-07-06
15, SKIPPE CLOSE, LEDBURY
HR8 2FG · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£225,000
2026-07-03
2, LANGLAND RISE, LEDBURY
HR8 2SY · Terraced · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£220,000
2026-07-01
73, OAKLAND DRIVE, LEDBURY
HR8 2EX · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£290,000
2026-07-01
THE OLD COACH HOUSE, LEDBURY
HR8 2JG · Detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£345,000
2026-06-26
LEADON BANK, ORCHARD LANE, LEDBURY
HR8 1BY · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 3 recorded sales
£125,000
2026-06-26
8, SKYPPE ROAD, LEDBURY
HR8 2GZ · Semi-detached · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£275,000
2026-06-26
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.
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Data sources
Every HR8 figure is official and dated
Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.
- HM Land RegistrySold prices
- MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
- Department for Education · OfstedSchools
- Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
- Police.UKStreet-level crime
- Environment AgencyFlood risk
- postcodes.io · ONSGeography
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.