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Lightwater market report GU18 5
The GU18 5 (Lightwater) 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: 4,623 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU18 5 (Lightwater) 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 typical home in GU18 5 (Lightwater) sold for £573,000 in 2026, the median of 37 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier. The mean was £568,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,623 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
GU18 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GU18 (Lightwater). 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 GU18 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.
What buyers actually paid in GU18 5
Across 37 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) GU18 5 home went for £573,000. The mean is £568,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in GU18 5
Per square metre, GU18 5 homes have averaged around £5,140 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GU18 5 101% above the national figure.
GU18 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 | £573,000 | £573,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £512,500 | £524,755 | 106 |
| 2024 | £532,500 | £566,157 | 130 |
| 2023 | £510,000 | £560,365 | 92 |
| 2022 | £497,000 | £582,789 | 104 |
| 2021 | £470,000 | £595,081 | 145 |
| 2020 | £460,000 | £596,860 | 104 |
| 2019 | £471,800 | £618,417 | 100 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 83 |
| 2017 | £446,000 | £608,299 | 97 |
| 2016 | £410,000 | £573,594 | 114 |
| 2015 | £425,000 | £600,525 | 116 |
| 2014 | £367,500 | £521,363 | 126 |
| 2013 | £321,200 | £462,175 | 126 |
| 2012 | £340,000 | £500,438 | 123 |
| 2011 | £360,000 | £543,462 | 112 |
| 2010 | £334,000 | £523,798 | 93 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 114 |
| 2008 | £315,000 | £516,352 | 119 |
| 2007 | £288,500 | £489,376 | 180 |
| 2006 | £255,000 | £442,647 | 204 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 139 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 189 |
| 2003 | £227,800 | £419,663 | 184 |
| 2002 | £198,500 | £373,476 | 205 |
| 2001 | £185,000 | £355,653 | 225 |
| 2000 | £162,000 | £317,925 | 201 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 232 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 217 |
| 1997 | £105,000 | £215,334 | 224 |
| 1996 | £100,500 | £211,950 | 212 |
| 1995 | £99,000 | £215,211 | 170 |
In cash terms the typical GU18 5 home went from £99,000 in 1995 to £573,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 166%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU18 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 2010 (+33.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.6%). 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) | +11.8% | +9.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 37 sales completed in GU18 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 191 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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 GU18 5
GU18 5 falls under Surrey Heath, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,508 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,040 a month here against £2,422 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Surrey Heath
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £573,000 median sold price, £1,508 a month is £18,096 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: 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.
The shape of the GU18 5 market
This is a thin market: 37 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
GU18 5 (Lightwater): the questions that come up
Is GU18 5 (Lightwater) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU18 5 (Lightwater)?
Are property prices falling in GU18 5 (Lightwater)?
Will GU18 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in GU18 today
Turning to what is actually available: 31 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU18 district, not just GU18 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 GU18 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the GU area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the GU area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the GU area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full GU18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in GU18 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GU18 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GU18 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GU18 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual GU18 5 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.