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Beech market report GU34 1, Alton
The GU34 1 (Beech) 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: 4,796 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU34 1 (Alton) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in GU34 1 (Alton) sold for £377,500 in 2026, the median of 47 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier. The mean was £401,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,310 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,796 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
GU34 1 is one sector of GU34 (Alton): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where GU34 1 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 GU34 1
Take the 47 registered 2026 sales in GU34 1 and the middle price, the median, is £377,500. The mean lands at £401,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in GU34 1
A square metre of GU34 1 home has cost about £4,310 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 GU34 1 32% above the country at large.
GU34 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £377,500 | £377,500 | 47 |
| 2025 | £383,800 | £392,978 | 178 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 207 |
| 2023 | £380,800 | £418,406 | 156 |
| 2022 | £440,000 | £515,950 | 241 |
| 2021 | £387,500 | £490,625 | 234 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 123 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 161 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 153 |
| 2017 | £323,800 | £441,631 | 144 |
| 2016 | £300,500 | £420,402 | 138 |
| 2015 | £262,000 | £370,206 | 174 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 176 |
| 2013 | £243,800 | £350,804 | 114 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 105 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 137 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 108 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 109 |
| 2008 | £235,000 | £385,215 | 98 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 185 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 181 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 150 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 191 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 222 |
| 2002 | £151,000 | £284,105 | 162 |
| 2001 | £129,000 | £247,996 | 161 |
| 2000 | £134,000 | £262,975 | 157 |
| 1999 | £103,200 | £205,672 | 152 |
| 1998 | £96,500 | £194,792 | 99 |
| 1997 | £72,800 | £149,298 | 88 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 129 |
| 1995 | £71,500 | £155,430 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical GU34 1 home went from £71,500 in 1995 to £377,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 143%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU34 1 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 (+32.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−13.5%). 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) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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
How many homes change hands
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.
GU34 1 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 166 sales a year recently, against 176 a year before 2008. 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 GU34 1
The local authority for GU34 1 is East Hampshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,260 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £899 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,976 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hampshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £377,500 median sold price, £1,260 a month is £15,120 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
What kind of market GU34 1 is
This is a thin market: 47 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. 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. Against the GU34 district median, GU34 1 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: GU34 1 (Beech)
Are property prices falling in GU34 1 (Beech)?
Is GU34 1 (Beech) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU34 1 (Beech)?
What happens to GU34 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in GU34 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 426 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU34 district, not just GU34 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Winchester Road, Four Marks, Alton, Hampshire
- Hazel Road, Four Marks, Alton, Hampshire
- Market Street, Alton, Hampshire
"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 GU34 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the GU area, 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, GU area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in GU34
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of GU34, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU34 2 | £380,000 | 61 |
| GU34 3 | £525,000 | 5 |
| GU34 4 | £450,000 | 25 |
| GU34 5 | £560,000 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full GU34 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU34 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in GU34 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GU34 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the GU34 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GU34 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim GU34 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GU34 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every GU34 1 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.
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.