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Farncombe market report GU7 2, Godalming

The standing GU7 2 (Farncombe) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,879 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU7 2 (Godalming) 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.

Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the typical home in GU7 2 (Godalming) sold for £521,200 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £604,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,879 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

A postcode sector like GU7 2 is a single group of streets within GU7 (Godalming), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What GU7 2 homes really sell for

42 sales were registered in GU7 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £521,200. The mean works out at £604,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.

House prices per square metre in GU7 2

A square metre of GU7 2 home has cost about £5,550 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 GU7 2 83% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical GU7 2 home went from £81,500 in 1995 to £521,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 194%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. 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.

The strongest year on record here is 2015 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−18.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

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.

The turnover behind the prices

GU7 2 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 116 sales a year recently, against 140 a year before 2008. 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 GU7 2 is

This is a thin market: 42 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. Within GU7, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Rents around GU7 2

GU7 2 falls under Waverley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.

Set against the £521,200 median sold price, £1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.

Common questions on GU7 2 (Farncombe)

Will GU7 2 prices rise from here?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

GU7's current homes for sale

The price of an extra bedroom in GU

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the GU area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in GU7

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GU7, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full GU7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU7 compares with its neighbours.

Thinking of selling in GU7 2? Get a rough value first

Keep digging

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with GU7 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

See every individual GU7 2 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.

Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.