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Chiddingfold market report GU8 5, Godalming

The GU8 5 (Chiddingfold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,202 sales registered with HM Land Registry in GU8 5 (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: the middle 2026 sale in GU8 5 (Godalming) came in at £527,000, out of 58 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £559,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,570 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,202 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

A postcode sector like GU8 5 is a single group of streets within GU8 (Godalming), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

Today's GU8 5 prices, from the sold record

The GU8 5 median stands at £527,000 for 2026, built from 58 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £559,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

House prices per square metre in GU8 5

By floor space, homes in GU8 5 have sold for about £5,570 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts GU8 5 85% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical GU8 5 home went from £93,900 in 1995 to £527,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 158%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 21% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 1996 (+23.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

What GU8 5 has returned, per year

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 5

Over the last twelve months of data, 58 sales completed in GU8 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 171 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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.

Reading the GU8 5 market

Only 58 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes GU8 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.

What homes rent for around GU8 5

GU8 5 falls under Waverley, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,445 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,047 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,341, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

£1,445 a month is £17,340 a year, which against the £527,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.

GU8 5 (Chiddingfold): the questions that come up

Are GU8 5 prices heading up or down?

That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.

What is for sale in GU8 right now

Moving up a bedroom in GU: the cost

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 GU8

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of GU8, each linking to its own report:

Zoom out to the full GU8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how GU8 compares with its neighbours.

Before you sell in GU8 5: what the record supports

Take it further

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The live map plots every individual GU8 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.