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Normandy market report GU3, Guildford
The GU3 (Normandy) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,277 HM Land Registry entries for GU3 (Guildford), 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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for GU3 (Guildford) is £555,000, from 55 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £714,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,510 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,277 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
GU3 is a postcode district covering Normandy, Puttenham, Worplesdon in Guildford. 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 GU3 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 GU3 prices, from the sold record
The GU3 median stands at £555,000 for 2026, built from 55 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £714,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in GU3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GU3 sales average about £5,510 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 GU3 trades 95% above the country as a whole.
GU3'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 | £555,000 | £555,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £533,000 | £545,746 | 157 |
| 2024 | £538,500 | £572,536 | 150 |
| 2023 | £540,000 | £593,328 | 99 |
| 2022 | £595,000 | £697,705 | 212 |
| 2021 | £560,000 | £709,032 | 250 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 119 |
| 2019 | £470,000 | £616,058 | 108 |
| 2018 | £475,000 | £633,184 | 160 |
| 2017 | £492,500 | £671,721 | 143 |
| 2016 | £435,000 | £608,569 | 125 |
| 2015 | £439,800 | £621,437 | 166 |
| 2014 | £400,000 | £567,470 | 185 |
| 2013 | £350,000 | £503,615 | 161 |
| 2012 | £327,500 | £482,039 | 153 |
| 2011 | £345,000 | £520,817 | 131 |
| 2010 | £331,200 | £519,407 | 140 |
| 2009 | £295,000 | £474,215 | 156 |
| 2008 | £295,000 | £483,567 | 119 |
| 2007 | £327,500 | £555,531 | 218 |
| 2006 | £295,500 | £512,950 | 220 |
| 2005 | £270,000 | £480,491 | 153 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 209 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 176 |
| 2002 | £236,000 | £444,032 | 201 |
| 2001 | £203,000 | £390,257 | 187 |
| 2000 | £182,200 | £357,568 | 166 |
| 1999 | £162,500 | £323,854 | 240 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 160 |
| 1997 | £119,000 | £244,045 | 224 |
| 1996 | £104,000 | £219,331 | 179 |
| 1995 | £90,000 | £195,646 | 155 |
In cash terms the typical GU3 home went from £90,000 in 1995 to £555,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 184%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU3 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 1998 (+17.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.9%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £725,000 against £248,800 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, GU3
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 | £905,000 | 21 | 2,163 |
| Semi-detached | £485,000 | 20 | 2,055 |
| Terraced | £417,500 | 11 | 855 |
| Flats | £248,800 (2024) | – | 171 |
What GU3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in GU3
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 115 GU3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. 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 135 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.
What homes rent for around GU3
The local authority for GU3 is Guildford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,728 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,179 a month here against £2,520 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Guildford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,728 a month is £20,736 a year, which against the £555,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.7%. 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.
The shape of the GU3 market
This is a thin market: 115 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.
GU3 (Normandy): the questions that come up
Is GU3 (Normandy) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU3 (Normandy)?
Are property prices falling in GU3 (Normandy)?
What happens to GU3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
GU3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in GU3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 100 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% above the GU3 median sold price.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Elm Hill, Normandy, Guildford, Surrey
- Perry Hill, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey, GU3
- Salt Box Road, Guildford
"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 GU3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: GU prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the GU area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
GU3 ranks 24 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 GU3, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU3 1 | £442,000 | 3 |
| GU3 2 | £785,000 | 15 |
| GU3 3 | £495,000 | 37 |
How GU3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the GU area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| GU25 | £927,000 | -5% |
| GU10 | £695,000 | +11% |
| GU5 | £660,000 | -10% |
| GU20 | £660,000 | -1% |
| GU18 | £573,000 | +22% |
| GU27 | £570,000 | +10% |
| GU31 | £565,000 | +11% |
| GU23 | £564,000 | -3% |
| GU24 | £560,000 | +0% |
| GU4 | £559,500 | +8% |
| GU3 (this report) | £555,000 | -1% |
| GU6 | £550,000 | +1% |
| GU8 | £535,000 | -10% |
| GU26 | £505,000 | -14% |
| GU2 | £490,000 | +9% |
| GU9 | £485,000 | +5% |
| GU32 | £480,800 | +14% |
| GU7 | £475,000 | +6% |
| GU16 | £470,000 | +11% |
| GU52 | £462,500 | +10% |
| GU33 | £458,800 | -8% |
| GU22 | £458,500 | -2% |
| GU47 | £455,000 | +14% |
| GU46 | £453,500 | +13% |
Thinking of selling in GU3? 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 GU3'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 GU3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GU3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GU3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every GU3 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.
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.