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Guildford Town Centre market report GU1 2, Guildford
The GU1 2 (Guildford Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,256 registered sales in GU1 2 (Guildford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GU1 2 (Guildford) came in at £500,000, out of 50 registered, down 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £758,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,256 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like GU1 2 is a single group of streets within GU1 (Guildford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where GU1 2 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.
The going rate for a home in GU1 2
The GU1 2 median stands at £500,000 for 2026, built from 50 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £758,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in GU1 2
By floor space, homes in GU1 2 have sold for about £6,250 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, GU1 2 runs 75% above it.
The price of a typical GU1 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 50 |
| 2025 | £640,000 | £655,304 | 141 |
| 2024 | £605,000 | £643,239 | 143 |
| 2023 | £625,000 | £686,722 | 111 |
| 2022 | £625,000 | £732,884 | 129 |
| 2021 | £597,500 | £756,512 | 178 |
| 2020 | £593,500 | £770,079 | 114 |
| 2019 | £563,000 | £737,958 | 126 |
| 2018 | £603,800 | £804,877 | 152 |
| 2017 | £657,500 | £896,764 | 126 |
| 2016 | £525,000 | £734,480 | 150 |
| 2015 | £445,000 | £628,785 | 165 |
| 2014 | £440,000 | £624,217 | 177 |
| 2013 | £417,500 | £600,741 | 202 |
| 2012 | £440,000 | £647,625 | 167 |
| 2011 | £366,200 | £552,821 | 166 |
| 2010 | £395,000 | £619,462 | 186 |
| 2009 | £300,000 | £482,253 | 114 |
| 2008 | £302,500 | £495,861 | 108 |
| 2007 | £331,500 | £562,316 | 172 |
| 2006 | £305,500 | £530,309 | 236 |
| 2005 | £280,000 | £498,287 | 210 |
| 2004 | £285,000 | £517,616 | 190 |
| 2003 | £245,000 | £451,349 | 160 |
| 2002 | £217,000 | £408,284 | 209 |
| 2001 | £198,200 | £381,029 | 196 |
| 2000 | £183,000 | £359,138 | 181 |
| 1999 | £160,000 | £318,872 | 211 |
| 1998 | £133,000 | £268,470 | 201 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 221 |
| 1996 | £120,000 | £253,075 | 209 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical GU1 2 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 44% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GU1 2 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 2010 (+31.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−21.9%). 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 years (since 2025) | −21.9% | −23.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.5% | −7.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.5% | −3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
Sales activity in GU1 2
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.
GU1 2 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 194 sales a year before the financial crisis and 115 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the GU1 2 market
This is a thin market: 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the GU1 district median, GU1 2 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of GU1 2
GU1 2 falls under Guildford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,728 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,728 a month (£20,736 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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 2 (Guildford Town Centre): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in GU1 2 (Guildford Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in GU1 2 (Guildford Town Centre)?
Is GU1 2 (Guildford Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to GU1 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 16% over five years in cash but down 34% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in GU1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 300 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU1 district, not just GU1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Harvey Road, Guildford, Surrey
- Vernon House, 25 York Road, Surrey
- Collingwood Crescent, Guildford, 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 GU1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in GU: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the GU area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £473,000 | £635,000 (+34%) | £910,000 (+43%) | £1,366,000 (+50%) |
| Semi-detached | £340,000 | £415,000 (+22%) | £486,000 (+17%) | £630,000 (+30%) | £885,000 (+40%) |
| Terraced | £315,000 | £368,500 (+17%) | £420,000 (+14%) | £550,000 (+31%) | £810,000 (+47%) |
| Flat | £205,000 | £279,000 (+36%) | £420,000 (+51%) | £590,000 (+40%) | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in GU1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GU1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU1 1 | £370,000 | 53 |
| GU1 3 | £692,500 | 29 |
| GU1 4 | £385,000 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full GU1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in GU1 2? 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 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GU1 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GU1 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working GU1 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GU1 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GU1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GU1 2 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.