A typical house in Drybrook sells for about £273,000. A detached house costs about £350,000. Semis go for around £246,000, and so few terraces sell that their price barely counts. Prices across the wider area have hardly changed in a year. Drybrook stays affordable mainly because it is so dependent on the car.
The Land Registry recorded 39 sales in the year to March 2026, with a median of about £273,000. Detached houses made up the biggest group: 19 sold, at a typical £350,000. Seventeen semis sold, at around £246,000. Only three terraces changed hands, at about £205,000, so that number describes three particular houses and says little about the market.
The Office for National Statistics' house-price index for the area moved by 0.2% in the twelve months to May 2026, which is as close to flat as a published figure gets. Over five years the same index is up about 16%. Flats are the exception, down about 4.1% over the year, but flats are only about 10% of Drybrook's homes. The one part of the market that is falling barely exists here.
Band A is the most common council-tax band, and Bands A and B together cover about 54% of homes. The Forest of Dean's Band D bill is about £2,440 a year. Comparison sites quote Band D, but most households here are on one of the two bands below it.
Renting is measured across the whole district. Typical private rent in the Forest of Dean is about £820 a month as of April 2026, and that figure is a mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, not an average of local listings. Broken down by size, the district averages about £590 for one bedroom, £795 for two, £950 for three and £1,440 for four or more. Three bedrooms is the most common size of home in Drybrook, so the £950 figure is the one most local tenants will recognise.
Local incomes go a fair way here. Modelled gross household income for the surrounding area was about £46,000 in the financial year to March 2023, or about £35,000 after tax. That is a few years old and before deductions. Even so, a semi in the mid-£240,000s is within reach of a typical two-income household with a deposit, which is less true of much of Gloucestershire. Every postcode here falls in the coalfield consultation area, so budget for a mining search alongside the survey.
Measured by floor space, the median is about £2,560 per square metre. The typical home behind that figure is about 104 square metres. Only 11 sales could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 28% of the year's total, so the figure covers the sales that can be measured and leaves out the rest.
At the 2021 census, about 47% of homes had three bedrooms and about 22% had four or more. About 27% had two bedrooms and only about 5% had one. Drybrook is mostly family houses, and the one-bedroom flat that eases buyers into most towns is hard to find.
What houses cost is one of Drybrook's strong points. A family-sized house with a garden costs a figure an ordinary local income can manage, and the cost comes later, on the drive to work.