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Chiddingfold market report GU8, Godalming
The GU8 (Chiddingfold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 8,099 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in GU8 (Godalming) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 95 registered 2026 sales put the GU8 (Godalming) median at £535,000, down 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £594,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,980 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 8,099 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district GU8 covering Chiddingfold, Dunsfold, Elstead sits in Godalming. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where GU8 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 prices, from the sold record
Across 95 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) GU8 home went for £535,000. The mean is £594,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in GU8
Per square metre, GU8 homes have averaged around £5,980 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, GU8 sits 88% above the national market.
The price of a typical GU8 home, 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 | £535,000 | £535,000 | 95 |
| 2025 | £642,500 | £657,864 | 230 |
| 2024 | £620,000 | £659,187 | 202 |
| 2023 | £632,500 | £694,963 | 198 |
| 2022 | £651,200 | £763,606 | 220 |
| 2021 | £595,000 | £753,347 | 314 |
| 2020 | £575,000 | £746,074 | 233 |
| 2019 | £519,000 | £680,285 | 236 |
| 2018 | £580,000 | £773,151 | 203 |
| 2017 | £530,000 | £722,867 | 209 |
| 2016 | £491,200 | £687,194 | 230 |
| 2015 | £460,000 | £649,980 | 233 |
| 2014 | £429,000 | £608,611 | 278 |
| 2013 | £408,000 | £587,071 | 209 |
| 2012 | £400,000 | £588,750 | 220 |
| 2011 | £415,000 | £626,490 | 224 |
| 2010 | £412,000 | £646,122 | 230 |
| 2009 | £351,200 | £564,557 | 208 |
| 2008 | £421,000 | £690,108 | 153 |
| 2007 | £360,000 | £610,660 | 321 |
| 2006 | £345,000 | £598,876 | 347 |
| 2005 | £315,000 | £560,573 | 274 |
| 2004 | £302,000 | £548,491 | 299 |
| 2003 | £290,000 | £534,250 | 289 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 341 |
| 2001 | £218,000 | £419,094 | 303 |
| 2000 | £195,000 | £382,688 | 338 |
| 1999 | £192,500 | £383,642 | 283 |
| 1998 | £170,000 | £343,157 | 284 |
| 1997 | £155,000 | £317,874 | 359 |
| 1996 | £130,000 | £274,164 | 291 |
| 1995 | £127,000 | £276,078 | 245 |
In cash terms the typical GU8 home went from £127,000 in 1995 to £535,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 94%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the GU8 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 1997 (+19.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−16.7%). 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, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £725,000 against £252,500 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, GU8
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 | £725,000 | 34 | 3,564 |
| Semi-detached | £497,500 | 30 | 2,358 |
| Terraced | £439,500 | 18 | 1,260 |
| Flats | £252,500 | 13 | 917 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.7% | −18.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.1% | −6.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in GU8
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 196 GU8 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 314 sales a year before the financial crisis and 189 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.
The shape of the GU8 market
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.
The rental side of GU8
For renting purposes GU8 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 £535,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,445 a month (£17,340 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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 (Chiddingfold)
Are property prices falling in GU8 (Chiddingfold)?
Is GU8 (Chiddingfold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in GU8 (Chiddingfold)?
Where do GU8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 10% over five years in cash but down 29% 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.
GU8's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in GU8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 146 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the GU8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in GU
Real sold prices by size across the GU area, straight 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
GU8 ranks 36 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.
Five-year change in the median, GU area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside GU8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| GU8 4 | £572,500 | 18 |
| GU8 5 | £527,000 | 58 |
| GU8 6 | £565,000 | 19 |
How GU8 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 | £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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in GU8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at GU8'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.
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Take it further
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See every individual GU8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.