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Burpham market report GU4, Guildford
The standing GU4 (Burpham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 10,225 HM Land Registry entries for GU4 (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: a typical GU4 (Guildford) home changed hands for £559,500 in 2026 (median of 118 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £601,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,090 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 10,225 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
GU4 is the postcode district covering Burpham, Chilworth, Jacobs Well in Guildford. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where GU4 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 GU4 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for GU4 is £559,500, taken from 118 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £601,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
GU4 prices by floor area
A square metre of GU4 home has cost about £6,090 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GU4 96% above the national figure.
A typical GU4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £559,500 | £559,500 | 118 |
| 2025 | £550,000 | £563,152 | 281 |
| 2024 | £520,000 | £552,867 | 209 |
| 2023 | £575,000 | £631,785 | 216 |
| 2022 | £590,000 | £691,842 | 265 |
| 2021 | £518,000 | £655,855 | 340 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 212 |
| 2019 | £475,000 | £622,611 | 217 |
| 2018 | £469,200 | £625,452 | 239 |
| 2017 | £472,500 | £644,443 | 256 |
| 2016 | £456,000 | £637,949 | 248 |
| 2015 | £427,500 | £604,058 | 292 |
| 2014 | £375,000 | £532,003 | 326 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 263 |
| 2012 | £367,000 | £540,178 | 278 |
| 2011 | £335,000 | £505,721 | 283 |
| 2010 | £327,500 | £513,604 | 256 |
| 2009 | £277,000 | £445,280 | 263 |
| 2008 | £310,000 | £508,155 | 196 |
| 2007 | £310,000 | £525,846 | 386 |
| 2006 | £266,000 | £461,742 | 429 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 370 |
| 2004 | £246,000 | £446,784 | 371 |
| 2003 | £215,400 | £396,819 | 400 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 440 |
| 2001 | £173,500 | £333,545 | 503 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 353 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 508 |
| 1998 | £112,200 | £226,484 | 438 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 546 |
| 1996 | £90,500 | £190,860 | 413 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 310 |
In cash terms the typical GU4 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £559,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 192%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU4 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 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−12.8%). 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, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £830,000 against £200,000 for a flat, 4.2 times the price.
Median by property type, GU4
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 | £830,000 | 45 | 3,573 |
| Semi-detached | £500,000 | 41 | 2,744 |
| Terraced | £415,000 | 19 | 2,226 |
| Flats | £200,000 | 13 | 1,682 |
What GU4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.7% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 231 GU4 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 407 sales a year before the financial crisis and 218 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 GU4
For renting purposes GU4 sits in Guildford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,728 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £559,500 median sold price, £1,728 a month is £20,736 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
The shape of the GU4 market
GU4 sits 10 of 39 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
GU4 (Burpham): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in GU4 (Burpham)?
Is GU4 (Burpham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU4 (Burpham)?
Are GU4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
What you could buy in GU4 now
Everything above is what homes in GU4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 110 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the GU4 median sold price.
29% 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.
- Old Manor Lane, Chilworth, Guildford, Surrey
- Station Road, Shalford, Guildford
- Gosden Hill Road, Guildford, Surrey
"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 GU4 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
GU4 ranks 17 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.
GU area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside GU4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GU4 7 | £554,500 | 82 |
| GU4 8 | £582,500 | 36 |
How GU4 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 (this report) | £559,500 | +8% |
| GU3 | £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 GU4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GU4, open the average prices map and zoom from the GU4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GU4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
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See every individual GU4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.