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Guildford Town Centre market report GU1, Guildford
The standing GU1 (Guildford Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 19,077 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GU1 (Guildford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 196 registered 2026 sales put the GU1 (Guildford) median at £441,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £577,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,850 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 19,077 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district GU1 covering Guildford Town Centre, Slyfield, Merrow sits in Guildford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where GU1 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 prices, from the sold record
Across 196 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) GU1 home went for £441,000. The mean is £577,900, 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
The last five years of sales put GU1 at roughly £5,850 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, GU1 runs 55% above it.
The price of a typical GU1 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £441,000 | £441,000 | 196 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 488 |
| 2024 | £463,500 | £492,796 | 462 |
| 2023 | £458,200 | £503,450 | 416 |
| 2022 | £453,000 | £531,194 | 520 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 571 |
| 2020 | £465,000 | £603,347 | 383 |
| 2019 | £440,000 | £576,735 | 447 |
| 2018 | £452,200 | £602,791 | 522 |
| 2017 | £430,000 | £586,477 | 543 |
| 2016 | £405,000 | £566,599 | 559 |
| 2015 | £372,500 | £526,343 | 567 |
| 2014 | £343,000 | £486,605 | 618 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 638 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 563 |
| 2011 | £285,500 | £430,995 | 509 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 535 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 483 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 440 |
| 2007 | £275,000 | £466,477 | 843 |
| 2006 | £255,000 | £442,647 | 827 |
| 2005 | £242,800 | £432,086 | 783 |
| 2004 | £232,500 | £422,265 | 751 |
| 2003 | £213,000 | £392,398 | 633 |
| 2002 | £200,900 | £377,992 | 812 |
| 2001 | £165,000 | £317,204 | 800 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 653 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 752 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 728 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 739 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 754 |
| 1995 | £76,800 | £166,951 | 542 |
In cash terms the typical GU1 home went from £76,800 in 1995 to £441,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 164%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU1 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 (+28.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.8% | −13.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,380,000 against £298,500 for a flat, 4.6 times the price.
Median by property type, GU1
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 | £1,380,000 | 23 | 3,562 |
| Semi-detached | £561,000 | 47 | 5,063 |
| Terraced | £500,500 | 32 | 2,617 |
| Flats | £298,500 | 94 | 7,835 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 399 sales completed in GU1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 763 sales a year before the financial crisis and 416 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 GU1
GU1 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.
Set against the £441,000 median sold price, £1,728 a month is £20,736 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Common questions on GU1 (Guildford Town Centre)
Are property prices falling in GU1 (Guildford Town Centre)?
Is GU1 (Guildford Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU1 (Guildford Town Centre)?
What happens to GU1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in GU1 now
Everything above is what homes in GU1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 300 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% below the GU1 median sold price.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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 | — | £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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
GU1 ranks 27 of 39 in the GU area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside GU1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU1 1 | £370,000 | 53 |
| GU1 2 | £500,000 | 50 |
| GU1 3 | £692,500 | 29 |
| GU1 4 | £385,000 | 64 |
How GU1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the GU area, and GU1 itself, which ranks 25 of 39 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| GU25 | £927,000 | -5% |
| GU10 | £695,000 | +11% |
| GU5 | £660,000 | -10% |
| GU20 | £660,000 | -1% |
| GU18 | £573,000 | +22% |
| GU27 | £570,000 | +10% |
| GU31 | £565,000 | +11% |
| GU23 | £564,000 | -3% |
| GU24 | £560,000 | +0% |
| GU4 | £559,500 | +8% |
| GU3 | £555,000 | -1% |
| GU6 | £550,000 | +1% |
| GU8 | £535,000 | -10% |
| GU26 | £505,000 | -14% |
| GU2 | £490,000 | +9% |
| GU9 | £485,000 | +5% |
| GU32 | £480,800 | +14% |
| GU7 | £475,000 | +6% |
| GU16 | £470,000 | +11% |
| GU52 | £462,500 | +10% |
| GU33 | £458,800 | -8% |
| GU22 | £458,500 | -2% |
| GU47 | £455,000 | +14% |
| GU1 (this report) | £441,000 | -2% |
Selling a home in GU1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GU1, open the average prices map and zoom from the GU1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GU1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working GU1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GU1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GU1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GU1 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.