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Chiddingfold market report GU8 4, Godalming
The standing GU8 4 (Chiddingfold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,344 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU8 4 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 18 registered 2026 sales put the GU8 4 (Godalming) median at £572,500, down 20% on five years earlier, with a mean of £612,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,600 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,344 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
GU8 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside GU8 (Godalming). 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 GU8 4 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 GU8 4 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for GU8 4 is £572,500, taken from 18 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £612,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in GU8 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of GU8 4 sales average about £6,600 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GU8 4 101% above the country at large.
A typical GU8 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £572,500 | £572,500 | 18 |
| 2025 | £760,000 | £778,174 | 68 |
| 2024 | £750,500 | £797,936 | 56 |
| 2023 | £796,000 | £874,610 | 54 |
| 2022 | £825,000 | £967,407 | 61 |
| 2021 | £714,200 | £904,269 | 74 |
| 2020 | £592,500 | £768,781 | 79 |
| 2019 | £660,000 | £865,102 | 75 |
| 2018 | £634,000 | £845,134 | 60 |
| 2017 | £690,000 | £941,091 | 53 |
| 2016 | £547,200 | £765,538 | 74 |
| 2015 | £565,000 | £798,345 | 60 |
| 2014 | £458,600 | £650,604 | 88 |
| 2013 | £430,000 | £618,727 | 75 |
| 2012 | £487,500 | £717,539 | 67 |
| 2011 | £520,000 | £785,000 | 61 |
| 2010 | £448,500 | £703,363 | 74 |
| 2009 | £465,000 | £747,491 | 59 |
| 2008 | £500,000 | £819,606 | 47 |
| 2007 | £469,200 | £795,894 | 76 |
| 2006 | £450,000 | £781,143 | 89 |
| 2005 | £400,000 | £711,839 | 75 |
| 2004 | £335,000 | £608,425 | 91 |
| 2003 | £333,800 | £614,941 | 80 |
| 2002 | £322,500 | £606,781 | 98 |
| 2001 | £253,200 | £486,764 | 78 |
| 2000 | £268,800 | £527,520 | 92 |
| 1999 | £235,000 | £468,343 | 80 |
| 1998 | £221,500 | £447,114 | 76 |
| 1997 | £171,700 | £352,122 | 132 |
| 1996 | £156,000 | £328,997 | 106 |
| 1995 | £141,000 | £306,512 | 68 |
In cash terms the typical GU8 4 home went from £141,000 in 1995 to £572,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 87%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 41% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU8 4 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−24.7%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −24.7% | −26.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.3% | −8.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.2% | −1.5% |
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 GU8 4
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 18 GU8 4 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 85 sales a year before the financial crisis and 51 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.
The shape of the GU8 4 market
This is a thin market: 18 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.
What homes rent for around GU8 4
The local authority for GU8 4 is Waverley, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Waverley
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £572,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 3.0% 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.
Common questions on GU8 4 (Chiddingfold)
Are property prices falling in GU8 4 (Chiddingfold)?
Is GU8 4 (Chiddingfold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU8 4 (Chiddingfold)?
Are GU8 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 20% over five years in cash but down 37% 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 is for sale in GU8 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 146 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole GU8 district, not just GU8 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Busdens Lane, Milford, Godalming, Surrey
- Milford Road, Elstead, Godalming, Surrey
- Cherryhurst, Hambledon, Godalming, Surrey
"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 GU8 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. 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the GU area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
GU area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in GU8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GU8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU8 5 | £527,000 | 58 |
| GU8 6 | £565,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full GU8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in GU8 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at GU8 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working GU8 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim GU8 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to GU8 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every GU8 4 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.
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.