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The GU (Guildford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 432,144 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in the GU postcode area (Guildford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for the GU postcode area (Guildford) is £450,000, from 4,829 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £539,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,090 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 432,144 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The figures for GU centred on Guildford run across 39 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where GU sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
GU sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 4,829 registered 2026 sales in GU and the middle price, the median, is £450,000. The mean lands at £539,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
GU prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GU sales average about £5,090 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so GU trades 58% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical GU home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 4,829 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 11,524 |
| 2024 | £455,000 | £483,758 | 10,495 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 9,737 |
| 2022 | £452,500 | £530,608 | 13,044 |
| 2021 | £430,000 | £544,435 | 15,985 |
| 2020 | £420,000 | £544,959 | 10,391 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 11,202 |
| 2018 | £392,000 | £522,543 | 11,421 |
| 2017 | £385,000 | £525,101 | 12,165 |
| 2016 | £370,000 | £517,634 | 12,414 |
| 2015 | £339,000 | £479,007 | 13,409 |
| 2014 | £305,000 | £432,696 | 13,853 |
| 2013 | £280,000 | £402,892 | 12,727 |
| 2012 | £275,000 | £404,766 | 10,573 |
| 2011 | £265,000 | £400,048 | 10,499 |
| 2010 | £272,500 | £427,350 | 10,657 |
| 2009 | £242,000 | £389,017 | 10,182 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 9,298 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 17,743 |
| 2006 | £237,500 | £412,270 | 18,752 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 15,848 |
| 2004 | £218,000 | £395,931 | 16,833 |
| 2003 | £202,000 | £372,133 | 16,102 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 18,230 |
| 2001 | £155,500 | £298,941 | 17,501 |
| 2000 | £142,500 | £279,656 | 15,985 |
| 1999 | £121,400 | £241,944 | 18,486 |
| 1998 | £105,000 | £211,950 | 16,425 |
| 1997 | £91,000 | £186,623 | 17,538 |
| 1996 | £84,500 | £178,207 | 15,833 |
| 1995 | £79,500 | £172,821 | 12,463 |
In cash terms the typical GU home went from £79,500 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GU median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+17.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−3.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £714,500 against £235,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, GU
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £714,500 | 1,482 | 137,515 |
| Semi-detached | £470,000 | 1,330 | 112,521 |
| Terraced | £380,000 | 1,039 | 93,280 |
| Flats | £235,000 | 978 | 88,828 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.2% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 8,714 GU sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 17,124 sales a year before the financial crisis and 9,926 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of GU
GU falls under Waverley, the local authority covering most of the GU area (parts fall under Guildford and Surrey Heath, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,047 a month here against £2,341 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Waverley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £450,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 3.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: GU (Guildford)
How much did a house sell for in GU (Guildford)?
Are property prices falling in GU (Guildford)?
Is GU (Guildford) a good place to buy a house?
Where do GU prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in GU today
Everything above is what homes in GU sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 3,486 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the GU median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (8,714 in GU), the 3,486 homes listed here amount to about 5 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- St. Georges Road East, Aldershot, Hampshire
- Dawsmere Close, Camberley, Surrey
- St. Johns Hill Road, Woking, Surrey
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every GU home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
GU: the homes on offer and the homes that go
In GU, terraced homes made up 20% of recent sales yet only 10% of today's listings. Demand outrunning supply for a type is the clearest sign a fairly priced one will go quickly.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 36% | 33% |
| Semi-detached | 25% | 27% |
| Terraced | 10% | 20% |
| Flats | 29% | 20% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (189 of them here).
When homes in GU change hands
Across the 60,785 sales completed in GU from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.2% of the total) and May the quietest (6.7%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4,296 | 7.1% |
| February | 4,577 | 7.5% |
| March | 6,838 | 11.2% |
| April | 4,075 | 6.7% |
| May | 4,073 | 6.7% |
| June | 6,307 | 10.4% |
| July | 4,517 | 7.4% |
| August | 5,512 | 9.1% |
| September | 5,965 | 9.8% |
| October | 5,073 | 8.3% |
| November | 4,882 | 8.0% |
| December | 4,670 | 7.7% |
Bedroom by bedroom: GU prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the GU area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £438,840 | £500,000 (+14%) | £585,000 (+17%) | £710,000 (+21%) | £900,000 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £350,000 | £411,500 (+18%) | £460,000 (+12%) | £535,000 (+16%) | £680,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £272,500 | £350,000 (+28%) | £395,000 (+13%) | £485,000 (+23%) | £600,000 (+24%) |
| Flat | £192,000 | £255,000 (+33%) | £318,000 (+25%) | £430,000 (+35%) | £550,000 (+28%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the GU area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, GU area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every GU district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| GU5 Albury, Bramley | £710,000 | -3% | 59 |
| GU25 Virginia Water, Wentworth | £705,000 | -28% | 34 |
| GU20 Windlesham | £700,000 | +4% | 31 |
| GU10 Bentley, Frensham | £690,000 | +10% | 121 |
| GU24 Bisley, Pirbright | £590,000 | +5% | 111 |
| GU4 Burpham, Chilworth | £580,000 | +12% | 143 |
| GU31 Petersfield (east), Buriton | £579,500 | +14% | 66 |
| GU27 Haslemere, Fernhurst | £570,000 | +10% | 106 |
| GU8 Chiddingfold, Dunsfold | £565,000 | -5% | 111 |
| GU23 Send, Ripley | £560,000 | -3% | 40 |
| GU6 Cranleigh, Ewhurst | £542,000 | -1% | 107 |
| GU18 Lightwater | £533,800 | +14% | 44 |
| GU3 Normandy, Puttenham | £530,000 | -5% | 65 |
| GU26 Hindhead, Bramshott Chase | £515,000 | -12% | 57 |
| GU9 Farnham, Badshot Lea | £500,000 | +9% | 231 |
| GU2 Guildford Park, Onslow Village | £488,800 | +9% | 166 |
| GU7 Farncombe, Godalming | £477,800 | +6% | 198 |
| GU32 Petersfield (west and town centre), East Meon | £477,000 | +14% | 76 |
| GU16 Frimley, Frimley Green | £475,000 | +12% | 185 |
| GU33 Liss, Greatham | £465,000 | -6% | 51 |
| GU22 Woking (south), Pyrford | £460,000 | -2% | 235 |
| GU52 Church Crookham, Crookham Village | £460,000 | +9% | 141 |
| GU30 Liphook, Bramshott | £452,500 | -2% | 58 |
| GU46 Yateley | £450,000 | +13% | 112 |
| GU47 Sandhurst, College Town | £450,000 | +13% | 123 |
| GU1 Guildford Town Centre, Slyfield | £445,000 | -1% | 232 |
| GU13 Fleet, Church Crookham | £438,500 | +75% | 1 |
| GU15 Camberley, Old Dean | £428,000 | +16% | 217 |
| GU17 Blackwater, Hawley | £427,500 | +3% | 70 |
| GU21 Woking (north), Knaphill | £425,000 | +10% | 310 |
| GU19 Bagshot | £420,000 | +0% | 47 |
| GU28 Petworth, Graffham | £412,000 | -25% | 29 |
| GU34 Alton, Beech | £405,000 | -3% | 211 |
| GU12 Aldershot, Ash | £390,000 | +10% | 197 |
| GU51 Fleet, Elvetham Heath | £385,000 | -3% | 186 |
| GU14 Farnborough, Cove | £370,000 | +10% | 317 |
| GU29 Midhurst, Cocking | £351,000 | -14% | 48 |
| GU11 Aldershot | £346,000 | +16% | 131 |
| GU35 Bordon, Headley | £345,000 | +0% | 163 |
Selling in GU? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GU, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GU's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GU sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GU. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GU sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.