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Knaphill market report GU21 5, Woking
The GU21 5 (Knaphill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,005 HM Land Registry entries for GU21 5 (Woking), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GU21 5 (Woking) came in at £413,000, out of 30 registered, up 38% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £446,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,960 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,005 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
GU21 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GU21 (Woking). 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 GU21 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 GU21 5
Take the 30 registered 2026 sales in GU21 5 and the middle price, the median, is £413,000. The mean lands at £446,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
GU21 5 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put GU21 5 at roughly £4,960 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GU21 5 45% above the country at large.
The price of a typical GU21 5 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £413,000 | £413,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £327,500 | £335,332 | 87 |
| 2024 | £380,000 | £404,018 | 76 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 97 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 180 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 206 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 63 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 89 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 95 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 72 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 75 |
| 2015 | £277,500 | £392,108 | 98 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 136 |
| 2013 | £236,000 | £339,580 | 99 |
| 2012 | £226,500 | £333,380 | 75 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 92 |
| 2010 | £218,500 | £342,664 | 90 |
| 2009 | £208,000 | £334,362 | 79 |
| 2008 | £204,000 | £334,399 | 115 |
| 2007 | £211,000 | £357,915 | 214 |
| 2006 | £206,500 | £358,458 | 208 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 158 |
| 2004 | £182,500 | £331,456 | 222 |
| 2003 | £167,000 | £307,654 | 149 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 178 |
| 2001 | £123,000 | £236,461 | 163 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 158 |
| 1999 | £88,500 | £176,376 | 147 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 145 |
| 1997 | £70,800 | £145,197 | 164 |
| 1996 | £64,700 | £136,449 | 138 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical GU21 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £413,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 217%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU21 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 2000 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−13.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What GU21 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +26.1% | +23.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.6% | +1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in GU21 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.
GU21 5 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 181 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 shape of the GU21 5 market
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GU21 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around GU21 5
GU21 5 falls under Woking, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,618 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,131 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,694 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Woking
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £413,000 median sold price, £1,618 a month is £19,416 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
Common questions on GU21 5 (Knaphill)
Are property prices falling in GU21 5 (Knaphill)?
Is GU21 5 (Knaphill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU21 5 (Knaphill)?
What happens to GU21 5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 38% over five years in cash and up 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in GU21 now
Turning to what is actually available: 363 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU21 district, not just GU21 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Jackmans Lane, St. John's, Woking, Surrey
- Lockwood Path, Woking, Surrey, GU21
- Aberdeen Way, Knaphill, Woking, Surrey
"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 GU21 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
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%) | — |
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.
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 GU21
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GU21, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU21 2 | £450,000 | 73 |
| GU21 3 | £370,000 | 63 |
| GU21 4 | £675,000 | 43 |
| GU21 6 | £291,200 | 22 |
| GU21 7 | £645,000 | 15 |
| GU21 8 | £458,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full GU21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in GU21 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at GU21 5'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 GU21 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GU21 5.
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The live map plots every individual GU21 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.
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.