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Ash market report GU12, Aldershot
The GU12 (Ash) 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: 20,579 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU12 (Aldershot) 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 data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical GU12 (Aldershot) home changed hands for £390,000 in 2026 (median of 197 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £406,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,560 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 20,579 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
GU12 is a postcode district covering Aldershot, Ash, Ash Green in Aldershot. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where GU12 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 GU12 sells for
The GU12 median stands at £390,000 for 2026, built from 197 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £406,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in GU12
The last five years of sales put GU12 at roughly £4,560 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GU12 37% above the national figure.
GU12's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 197 |
| 2025 | £372,500 | £381,408 | 535 |
| 2024 | £373,000 | £396,576 | 443 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 488 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 674 |
| 2021 | £355,000 | £449,476 | 754 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 482 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 503 |
| 2018 | £309,000 | £411,903 | 568 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 586 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 555 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 639 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 646 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 540 |
| 2012 | £208,000 | £306,150 | 441 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 436 |
| 2010 | £208,800 | £327,452 | 412 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 463 |
| 2008 | £207,000 | £339,317 | 437 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 873 |
| 2006 | £191,000 | £331,552 | 983 |
| 2005 | £178,000 | £316,768 | 799 |
| 2004 | £171,000 | £310,569 | 869 |
| 2003 | £161,000 | £296,601 | 805 |
| 2002 | £144,000 | £270,935 | 915 |
| 2001 | £126,000 | £242,229 | 869 |
| 2000 | £113,200 | £222,155 | 782 |
| 1999 | £96,700 | £192,718 | 1,016 |
| 1998 | £84,800 | £171,175 | 815 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 824 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 646 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 584 |
In cash terms the typical GU12 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 185%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU12 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 (+17.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £540,000 against £187,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, GU12
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 | £540,000 | 47 | 3,592 |
| Semi-detached | £407,500 | 74 | 7,350 |
| Terraced | £340,000 | 53 | 6,143 |
| Flats | £187,500 | 23 | 3,494 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +4.7% | +2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.6% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 377 sales completed in GU12. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 862 sales a year before the financial crisis and 467 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.
What kind of market GU12 is
In its area's price order GU12 comes 34 of 39, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around GU12
The local authority for GU12 is Guildford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,728 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,179 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,520 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Guildford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £390,000 median sold price, £1,728 a month is £20,736 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
GU12 (Ash): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in GU12 (Ash)?
Are property prices falling in GU12 (Ash)?
Is GU12 (Ash) a good place to buy a house?
Are GU12 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in GU12 right now
Everything above is what homes in GU12 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 397 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the GU12 median sold price.
GU12 registered 377 sales in the last twelve months; the 397 homes listed now would take about 13 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger. That is a long queue: stock is building faster than it sells, which is the buyer's moment to negotiate.
14% 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.
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"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 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.
Listed against sold: the GU12 mix
Flats are 12% of what sold in GU12 over 2024 and 2025 but only 0% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 28% | 18% |
| Semi-detached | 35% | 39% |
| Terraced | 37% | 30% |
| Flats | 0% | 12% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares.
When homes in GU12 change hands
March is when GU12 changes hands most (11.0% of the 2,894 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.5%. That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 229 | 7.9% |
| February | 237 | 8.2% |
| March | 319 | 11.0% |
| April | 189 | 6.5% |
| May | 195 | 6.7% |
| June | 284 | 9.8% |
| July | 227 | 7.8% |
| August | 252 | 8.7% |
| September | 291 | 10.1% |
| October | 215 | 7.4% |
| November | 237 | 8.2% |
| December | 219 | 7.6% |
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 | £438,840 | £500,000 (+14%) | £585,000 (+17%) | £710,000 (+21%) | £900,000 (+27%) |
| Semi-detached | £350,000 | £411,500 (+18%) | £460,000 (+12%) | £535,000 (+16%) | £680,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £272,500 | £350,000 (+28%) | £395,000 (+13%) | £485,000 (+23%) | £600,000 (+24%) |
| Flat | £192,000 | £255,000 (+33%) | £318,000 (+25%) | £430,000 (+35%) | £550,000 (+28%) |
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
GU12 ranks 14 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.
Five-year change in the median, GU area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside GU12, 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.
How GU12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the GU area, and GU12 itself, which ranks 34 of 39 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| GU5 | £710,000 | -3% |
| GU25 | £705,000 | -28% |
| GU20 | £700,000 | +4% |
| GU10 | £690,000 | +10% |
| GU24 | £590,000 | +5% |
| GU4 | £580,000 | +12% |
| GU31 | £579,500 | +14% |
| GU27 | £570,000 | +10% |
| GU8 | £565,000 | -5% |
| GU23 | £560,000 | -3% |
| GU6 | £542,000 | -1% |
| GU18 | £533,800 | +14% |
| GU3 | £530,000 | -5% |
| GU26 | £515,000 | -12% |
| GU9 | £500,000 | +9% |
| GU2 | £488,800 | +9% |
| GU7 | £477,800 | +6% |
| GU32 | £477,000 | +14% |
| GU16 | £475,000 | +12% |
| GU33 | £465,000 | -6% |
| GU22 | £460,000 | -2% |
| GU52 | £460,000 | +9% |
| GU30 | £452,500 | -2% |
| GU12 (this report) | £390,000 | +10% |
Before you sell in GU12: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GU12, open the average prices map and zoom from the GU12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GU12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every GU12 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.
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.