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Guildford Town Centre market report GU1 4, Guildford
The GU1 4 (Guildford Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,532 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU1 4 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for GU1 4 (Guildford) is £385,000, from 64 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £419,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,590 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,532 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GU1 4 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 4 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 a home in GU1 4 sells for
Across 64 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) GU1 4 home went for £385,000. The mean is £419,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in GU1 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GU1 4 sales average about £5,590 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GU1 4 35% above the national figure.
A typical GU1 4 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 64 |
| 2025 | £470,000 | £481,239 | 107 |
| 2024 | £449,000 | £477,379 | 112 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 93 |
| 2022 | £421,000 | £493,671 | 111 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 108 |
| 2020 | £415,600 | £539,250 | 85 |
| 2019 | £383,500 | £502,677 | 98 |
| 2018 | £407,500 | £543,205 | 143 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 193 |
| 2016 | £371,500 | £519,732 | 144 |
| 2015 | £342,000 | £483,246 | 125 |
| 2014 | £295,000 | £418,509 | 143 |
| 2013 | £296,000 | £425,914 | 144 |
| 2012 | £265,000 | £390,047 | 129 |
| 2011 | £247,200 | £373,177 | 96 |
| 2010 | £282,500 | £443,033 | 108 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 123 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 119 |
| 2007 | £265,000 | £449,514 | 217 |
| 2006 | £247,400 | £429,455 | 191 |
| 2005 | £227,000 | £403,969 | 197 |
| 2004 | £214,300 | £389,211 | 173 |
| 2003 | £210,000 | £386,871 | 177 |
| 2002 | £200,000 | £376,298 | 193 |
| 2001 | £157,500 | £302,786 | 177 |
| 2000 | £143,000 | £280,638 | 150 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 178 |
| 1998 | £97,000 | £195,801 | 173 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 159 |
| 1996 | £74,500 | £157,117 | 151 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical GU1 4 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 162%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GU1 4 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 2002 (+27.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.1%). 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) | −18.1% | −20.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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 4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 64 GU1 4 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 184 sales a year before the financial crisis and 97 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.
What kind of market GU1 4 is
Against the GU1 district median, GU1 4 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around GU1 4
GU1 4 falls under Guildford, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £385,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,728 a month (£20,736 a year) works out at a 5.4% 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: GU1 4 (Guildford Town Centre)
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What people search before landing on GU1 4 (Guildford Town Centre)
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as GU1 1DY. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
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.
Where do GU1 4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the GU area, 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 | — | £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. 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.
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.
Other sectors in GU1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are GU1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU1 1 | £370,000 | 53 |
| GU1 2 | £500,000 | 50 |
| GU1 3 | £692,500 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full GU1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in GU1 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GU1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GU1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GU1 4 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 4.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every GU1 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.