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Ash market report GU12 5, Aldershot
The GU12 5 (Ash) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,787 registered sales in GU12 5 (Aldershot) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GU12 5 (Aldershot) came in at £420,000, out of 51 registered, up 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £419,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,787 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
GU12 5 is one sector of GU12 (Aldershot): 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 GU12 5 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 GU12 5
In the GU12 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £420,000, from 51 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £419,300, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in GU12 5
By floor space, homes in GU12 5 have sold for about £4,880 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GU12 5 47% above the national figure.
GU12 5's median sold price, 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 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £386,300 | £395,538 | 145 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 114 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 113 |
| 2022 | £396,200 | £464,590 | 130 |
| 2021 | £358,500 | £453,907 | 198 |
| 2020 | £347,500 | £450,888 | 120 |
| 2019 | £342,000 | £448,280 | 124 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 129 |
| 2017 | £337,000 | £459,634 | 162 |
| 2016 | £312,500 | £437,191 | 147 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 157 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 197 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 159 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 134 |
| 2011 | £211,500 | £319,284 | 110 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 119 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 119 |
| 2008 | £219,200 | £359,315 | 116 |
| 2007 | £224,000 | £379,966 | 243 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 247 |
| 2005 | £183,000 | £325,666 | 211 |
| 2004 | £181,000 | £328,731 | 252 |
| 2003 | £167,000 | £307,654 | 250 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 250 |
| 2001 | £140,500 | £270,104 | 282 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 320 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 364 |
| 1998 | £90,500 | £182,681 | 287 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 187 |
| 1996 | £70,200 | £148,049 | 178 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 172 |
In cash terms the typical GU12 5 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 182%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GU12 5 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 1999 (+32.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.7% | +6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in GU12 5
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 51 GU12 5 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 257 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 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.
Reading the GU12 5 market
Only 51 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GU12 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the GU12 district median, GU12 5 sits 9% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around GU12 5
The local authority for GU12 5 is Guildford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,728 a month is £20,736 a year, which against the £420,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on GU12 5 (Ash)
How much did a house sell for in GU12 5 (Ash)?
Are property prices falling in GU12 5 (Ash)?
Is GU12 5 (Ash) a good place to buy a house?
Are GU12 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
GU12's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 523 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU12 district, not just GU12 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Attfield Close, Ash, Surrey
- Horseshoe Lane, Ash Vale, Surrey
- Northcote Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Aldershot
"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 GU12 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in GU
Real sold prices by size across the GU area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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 GU12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GU12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU12 4 | £372,500 | 60 |
| GU12 6 | £398,500 | 56 |
Zoom out to the full GU12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in GU12 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GU12 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the GU12 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GU12 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim GU12 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GU12 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual GU12 5 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.
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.