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Ewhurst market report GU6 8, Cranleigh
The GU6 8 (Ewhurst) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,297 HM Land Registry entries for GU6 8 (Cranleigh), 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in GU6 8 (Cranleigh) came in at £620,000, out of 49 registered, up 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £670,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,250 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,297 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
GU6 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GU6 (Cranleigh). 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 GU6 8 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 GU6 8 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for GU6 8 is £620,000, taken from 49 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £670,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in GU6 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in GU6 8 costs about £5,250 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, GU6 8 runs 118% above it.
The price of a typical GU6 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £620,000 | £620,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £565,000 | £578,511 | 199 |
| 2024 | £590,000 | £627,291 | 183 |
| 2023 | £597,000 | £655,957 | 172 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 246 |
| 2021 | £570,000 | £721,694 | 287 |
| 2020 | £530,000 | £687,686 | 189 |
| 2019 | £510,000 | £668,488 | 157 |
| 2018 | £505,000 | £673,175 | 105 |
| 2017 | £438,800 | £598,479 | 110 |
| 2016 | £430,000 | £601,574 | 104 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 89 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 95 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 112 |
| 2012 | £345,000 | £507,797 | 104 |
| 2011 | £316,000 | £477,038 | 93 |
| 2010 | £330,000 | £517,525 | 109 |
| 2009 | £310,000 | £498,328 | 98 |
| 2008 | £303,800 | £497,992 | 70 |
| 2007 | £300,000 | £508,884 | 138 |
| 2006 | £270,000 | £468,686 | 167 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 127 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 149 |
| 2003 | £201,500 | £371,212 | 105 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 127 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 143 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 143 |
| 1999 | £126,800 | £252,706 | 142 |
| 1998 | £130,000 | £262,414 | 123 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 135 |
| 1996 | £102,200 | £215,535 | 124 |
| 1995 | £90,000 | £195,646 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical GU6 8 home went from £90,000 in 1995 to £620,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 217%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the GU6 8 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 (+30.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−5.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What GU6 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.7% | +7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
Sales activity in GU6 8
Sales per year, counted
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.
GU6 8 recorded 49 sales in the last twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 170 sales a year over the last five years against 137 before the financial crisis. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What kind of market GU6 8 is
This is a thin market: 49 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. Against the GU6 district median, GU6 8 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around GU6 8
For renting purposes GU6 8 sits in Waverley. The ONS average private rent there is £1,445 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,047 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,341 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Waverley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £620,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 2.8% 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.
GU6 8 (Ewhurst): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in GU6 8 (Ewhurst)?
Is GU6 8 (Ewhurst) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU6 8 (Ewhurst)?
Will GU6 8 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 GU6 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 41 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU6 district, not just GU6 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Loxwood Road, Alfold, Cranleigh, Surrey
- Village Way, Cranleigh, Waverley, Surrey
- The Oaks at Willow Fields, Alfold, Cr...
"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 GU6 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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 GU6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GU6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU6 7 | £509,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full GU6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in GU6 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in GU6 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from GU6 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded GU6 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim GU6 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GU6 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every GU6 8 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.