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Albury market report GU5, Guildford
The GU5 (Albury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,915 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GU5 (Guildford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical GU5 (Guildford) home changed hands for £660,000 in 2026 (median of 39 registered sales, down 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £786,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,460 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,915 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
GU5 is a postcode district covering Albury, Bramley, Shere 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 GU5 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 GU5 homes really sell for
Take the 39 registered 2026 sales in GU5 and the middle price, the median, is £660,000. The mean lands at £786,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
GU5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in GU5 costs about £6,460 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving GU5 132% above the national figure.
A typical GU5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £660,000 | £660,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £797,500 | £816,571 | 118 |
| 2024 | £667,500 | £709,690 | 104 |
| 2023 | £771,400 | £847,580 | 131 |
| 2022 | £750,200 | £879,695 | 130 |
| 2021 | £729,500 | £923,641 | 220 |
| 2020 | £695,000 | £901,777 | 139 |
| 2019 | £584,000 | £765,484 | 140 |
| 2018 | £605,000 | £806,476 | 126 |
| 2017 | £625,000 | £852,437 | 123 |
| 2016 | £584,000 | £817,022 | 152 |
| 2015 | £540,000 | £763,020 | 163 |
| 2014 | £607,500 | £861,845 | 140 |
| 2013 | £467,500 | £672,686 | 180 |
| 2012 | £487,500 | £717,539 | 132 |
| 2011 | £485,500 | £732,918 | 124 |
| 2010 | £470,000 | £737,081 | 149 |
| 2009 | £426,200 | £685,120 | 156 |
| 2008 | £385,000 | £631,096 | 115 |
| 2007 | £456,000 | £773,503 | 217 |
| 2006 | £385,500 | £669,179 | 210 |
| 2005 | £370,000 | £658,451 | 161 |
| 2004 | £430,000 | £780,964 | 162 |
| 2003 | £355,000 | £653,996 | 171 |
| 2002 | £295,000 | £555,040 | 193 |
| 2001 | £269,000 | £517,139 | 159 |
| 2000 | £250,000 | £490,625 | 207 |
| 1999 | £220,000 | £438,449 | 193 |
| 1998 | £190,000 | £383,529 | 169 |
| 1997 | £183,100 | £375,501 | 186 |
| 1996 | £152,000 | £320,561 | 176 |
| 1995 | £142,500 | £309,773 | 130 |
In cash terms the typical GU5 home went from £142,500 in 1995 to £660,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 113%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the GU5 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 2014 (+29.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.2%). 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, 47% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,000,000 against £350,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, GU5
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 | £1,000,000 | 15 | 2,322 |
| Semi-detached | £589,200 | 14 | 1,426 |
| Terraced | £444,500 | 6 | 689 |
| Flats | £350,000 (2025) | – | 474 |
What GU5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −17.2% | −19.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.0% | −6.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
GU5 recorded 87 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 185 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 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.
How GU5 trades
This is a thin market: 87 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 39 measurable districts of its area, GU5 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What homes rent for around GU5
For renting purposes GU5 sits in Waverley. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,047 a month here against £2,341 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Waverley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £660,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 2.6% 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.
Asked and answered: GU5 (Albury)
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What happens to GU5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in GU5 today
Everything above is what homes in GU5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 55 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the GU5 median sold price.
11% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- New Road, Wonersh, Guildford, Surrey
- Birtley Road, Bramley, Guildford, Surrey
- Horsham Road, Bramley, GU5
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every GU5 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in GU
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
GU5 ranks 35 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.
Winners and losers across the GU area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside GU5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU5 0 | £583,800 | 26 |
| GU5 9 | £775,000 | 13 |
How GU5 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Before you sell in GU5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in GU5, open the average prices map and zoom from the GU5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded GU5 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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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.