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Guildford Town Centre market report GU1 3, Guildford
The standing GU1 3 (Guildford Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,668 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU1 3 (Guildford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 29 registered 2026 sales put the GU1 3 (Guildford) median at £692,500, up 16% on five years earlier, with a mean of £925,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,730 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,668 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
GU1 3 is one sector of GU1 (Guildford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where GU1 3 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.
What GU1 3 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for GU1 3 is £692,500, taken from 29 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £925,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in GU1 3
Per square metre, GU1 3 homes have averaged around £6,730 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so GU1 3 trades 143% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical GU1 3 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £692,500 | £692,500 | 29 |
| 2025 | £537,500 | £550,353 | 90 |
| 2024 | £577,500 | £614,001 | 76 |
| 2023 | £600,000 | £659,253 | 65 |
| 2022 | £587,500 | £688,911 | 92 |
| 2021 | £595,000 | £753,347 | 94 |
| 2020 | £510,000 | £661,736 | 66 |
| 2019 | £590,000 | £773,349 | 73 |
| 2018 | £525,000 | £699,835 | 86 |
| 2017 | £625,000 | £852,437 | 71 |
| 2016 | £506,500 | £708,599 | 111 |
| 2015 | £480,000 | £678,240 | 99 |
| 2014 | £485,000 | £688,057 | 107 |
| 2013 | £354,200 | £509,658 | 120 |
| 2012 | £362,500 | £533,555 | 123 |
| 2011 | £305,000 | £460,433 | 101 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 95 |
| 2009 | £335,000 | £538,515 | 79 |
| 2008 | £325,000 | £532,744 | 65 |
| 2007 | £305,000 | £517,365 | 150 |
| 2006 | £285,000 | £494,724 | 146 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 171 |
| 2004 | £277,800 | £504,539 | 114 |
| 2003 | £224,000 | £412,662 | 117 |
| 2002 | £245,000 | £460,965 | 177 |
| 2001 | £205,000 | £394,102 | 211 |
| 2000 | £207,000 | £406,238 | 146 |
| 1999 | £141,800 | £282,600 | 162 |
| 1998 | £103,200 | £208,317 | 155 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 144 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 207 |
| 1995 | £71,800 | £156,082 | 126 |
In cash terms the typical GU1 3 home went from £71,800 in 1995 to £692,500 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 344%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GU1 3 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 1997 (+47.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−16.0%). 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) | +28.8% | +25.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
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.
Sales activity in GU1 3
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 29 sales completed in GU1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 154 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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.
Rents around GU1 3
The local authority for GU1 3 is Guildford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,728 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,179 a month here against £2,520 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Guildford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £692,500 median sold price, £1,728 a month is £20,736 a year, a gross yield of 3.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market GU1 3 is
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GU1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within GU1, this sector trades 57% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people search before landing on GU1 3 (Guildford Town Centre)
A lot of searches that reach this page are full postcodes, GU1 3DY among them. A full postcode is a street segment of a dozen or so homes, below even sector level; the medians on this page are the context, and the live map shows every recorded sale at those exact addresses.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
GU1 3 (Guildford Town Centre): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in GU1 3 (Guildford Town Centre)?
Is GU1 3 (Guildford Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU1 3 (Guildford Town Centre)?
Where do GU1 3 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
GU1's current homes for sale
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Harvey Road, Guildford, Surrey
- Vernon House, 25 York Road, Surrey
- Collingwood Crescent, Guildford, Surrey
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every GU1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in GU: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the GU area. 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 | — | £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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the GU area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the GU area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in GU1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GU1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU1 1 | £370,000 | 53 |
| GU1 2 | £500,000 | 50 |
| 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.
Before you sell in GU1 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GU1 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GU1 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GU1 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim GU1 3.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GU1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual GU1 3 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.