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Guildford Park market report GU2 8, Guildford
The GU2 8 (Guildford Park) 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: 2,732 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU2 8 (Guildford) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for GU2 8 (Guildford) is £422,500, from 20 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £380,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,732 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 GU2 8 is a single group of streets within GU2 (Guildford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where GU2 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.
What GU2 8 homes really sell for
Across 20 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) GU2 8 home went for £422,500. The mean is £380,700, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in GU2 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GU2 8 sales average about £4,880 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so GU2 8 trades 48% above the country as a whole.
A typical GU2 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £422,500 | £422,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £412,500 | £422,364 | 52 |
| 2024 | £386,500 | £410,929 | 48 |
| 2023 | £368,500 | £404,892 | 46 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 61 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 63 |
| 2020 | £378,800 | £491,501 | 47 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 43 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 44 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 57 |
| 2016 | £327,000 | £457,476 | 73 |
| 2015 | £323,500 | £457,106 | 90 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 93 |
| 2013 | £247,500 | £356,128 | 69 |
| 2012 | £242,000 | £356,194 | 69 |
| 2011 | £231,200 | £349,023 | 64 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 72 |
| 2009 | £197,500 | £317,483 | 77 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 88 |
| 2007 | £227,500 | £385,903 | 153 |
| 2006 | £204,000 | £354,118 | 141 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 127 |
| 2004 | £191,200 | £347,257 | 114 |
| 2003 | £173,000 | £318,708 | 136 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 161 |
| 2001 | £131,400 | £252,610 | 100 |
| 2000 | £122,000 | £239,425 | 124 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 132 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 93 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 101 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 99 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical GU2 8 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £422,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 163%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GU2 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 2015 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.2%). 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) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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 GU2 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, 20 sales completed in GU2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 132 sales a year before the financial crisis and 45 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.
Rents around GU2 8
GU2 8 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.
Against the £422,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,728 a month (£20,736 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the GU2 8 market
This is a thin market: 20 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. Within GU2, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: GU2 8 (Guildford Park)
Is GU2 8 (Guildford Park) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU2 8 (Guildford Park)?
Are property prices falling in GU2 8 (Guildford Park)?
Will GU2 8 prices rise from here?
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.
GU2's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 151 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU2 district, not just GU2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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.
"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 GU2 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.
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%) | — |
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.
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.
Other sectors in GU2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GU2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU2 4 | £605,000 | 22 |
| GU2 7 | £605,000 | 24 |
| GU2 9 | £475,000 | 71 |
Zoom out to the full GU2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in GU2 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at GU2 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim GU2 8.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual GU2 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.