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Cove market report GU14 8, Farnborough
The standing GU14 8 (Cove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,123 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU14 8 (Farnborough) 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: the 2026 median for GU14 8 (Farnborough) is £370,000, from 62 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £378,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,340 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,123 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like GU14 8 is a single group of streets within GU14 (Farnborough), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where GU14 8 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 GU14 8 prices, from the sold record
62 sales were registered in GU14 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £370,000. The mean works out at £378,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
GU14 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of GU14 8 home has cost about £4,340 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GU14 8 30% above the country at large.
A typical GU14 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 62 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 160 |
| 2024 | £383,800 | £408,058 | 142 |
| 2023 | £387,500 | £425,768 | 134 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 172 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 214 |
| 2020 | £315,500 | £409,368 | 136 |
| 2019 | £315,500 | £413,545 | 150 |
| 2018 | £314,500 | £419,234 | 166 |
| 2017 | £322,000 | £439,176 | 221 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 180 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 225 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 181 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 207 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 162 |
| 2011 | £206,000 | £310,981 | 128 |
| 2010 | £211,000 | £330,902 | 190 |
| 2009 | £179,000 | £287,744 | 167 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 153 |
| 2007 | £194,000 | £329,078 | 331 |
| 2006 | £176,000 | £305,514 | 355 |
| 2005 | £163,100 | £290,252 | 250 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 335 |
| 2003 | £154,500 | £284,626 | 298 |
| 2002 | £128,500 | £241,772 | 342 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 308 |
| 2000 | £106,000 | £208,025 | 350 |
| 1999 | £86,000 | £171,394 | 363 |
| 1998 | £77,200 | £155,834 | 300 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 283 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 226 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 232 |
In cash terms the typical GU14 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 184%, 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 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GU14 8 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 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.2%). 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) | −2.6% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in GU14 8
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 62 sales completed in GU14 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 321 sales a year before the financial crisis and 134 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 GU14 8
For renting purposes GU14 8 sits in Rushmoor. The ONS average private rent there is £1,380 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £975 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,168, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Rushmoor
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,380 a month is £16,560 a year, which against the £370,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
GU14 8 (Cove): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in GU14 8 (Cove)?
Is GU14 8 (Cove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU14 8 (Cove)?
Where do GU14 8 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 GU14 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 344 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU14 district, not just GU14 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% 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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- Cranleigh Court, Farnborough, Hampshire
"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 GU14 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
Real sold prices by size across the GU area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
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.
Other sectors in GU14
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GU14, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU14 0 | £390,000 | 39 |
| GU14 6 | £330,000 | 61 |
| GU14 7 | £250,000 | 43 |
| GU14 9 | £402,500 | 60 |
Zoom out to the full GU14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU14 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in GU14 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at GU14 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working GU14 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GU14 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GU14 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual GU14 8 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.