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Guildford Town Centre market report GU1 1, Guildford
The standing GU1 1 (Guildford Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,632 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU1 1 (Guildford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical GU1 1 (Guildford) home changed hands for £421,500 in 2026 (median of 64 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £481,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,260 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,632 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
GU1 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GU1 (Guildford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where GU1 1 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.
Today's GU1 1 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for GU1 1 is £421,500, taken from 64 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £481,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
GU1 1 prices by floor area
Per square metre, GU1 1 homes have averaged around £5,260 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GU1 1 48% above the country at large.
A typical GU1 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £421,500 | £421,500 | 64 |
| 2025 | £457,500 | £468,440 | 150 |
| 2024 | £423,000 | £449,736 | 131 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 147 |
| 2022 | £384,700 | £451,105 | 188 |
| 2021 | £410,000 | £519,113 | 191 |
| 2020 | £416,500 | £540,417 | 118 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 150 |
| 2018 | £400,000 | £533,208 | 141 |
| 2017 | £416,000 | £567,382 | 153 |
| 2016 | £372,000 | £520,432 | 154 |
| 2015 | £331,200 | £467,986 | 178 |
| 2014 | £305,000 | £432,696 | 191 |
| 2013 | £258,500 | £371,956 | 172 |
| 2012 | £249,500 | £367,233 | 144 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 146 |
| 2010 | £260,000 | £407,747 | 146 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 167 |
| 2008 | £247,800 | £406,197 | 148 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 304 |
| 2006 | £241,600 | £419,387 | 254 |
| 2005 | £217,000 | £386,173 | 205 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 274 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 179 |
| 2002 | £176,000 | £331,142 | 233 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 216 |
| 2000 | £139,000 | £272,788 | 176 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 201 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 199 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 215 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 187 |
| 1995 | £74,700 | £162,386 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical GU1 1 home went from £74,700 in 1995 to £421,500 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. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GU1 1 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 1998 (+28.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −7.9% | −10.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +0.2% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 64 GU1 1 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 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around GU1 1
For renting purposes GU1 1 sits in Guildford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,728 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,179 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,520, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Guildford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £421,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,728 a month (£20,736 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
GU1 1 (Guildford Town Centre): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in GU1 1 (Guildford Town Centre)?
Is GU1 1 (Guildford Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU1 1 (Guildford Town Centre)?
What happens to GU1 1 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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 GU1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 184 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU1 district, not just GU1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
15% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Portland Terrace, Harvey Road, Guildford, Surrey
- Harvey Road, Guildford, Surrey
- High Path Road, Guildford, Surrey
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every GU1 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.
What another bedroom costs in GU
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the GU area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the GU area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
GU area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in GU1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GU1, one report each:
Zoom out to the full GU1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in GU1 1? 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 GU1 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GU1 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GU1 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GU1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual GU1 1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.