Down Road, Guildford house prices are built from 162 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £283,250. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +12.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -18.4%.
Median price paid
£283,250
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+12.6%
Change in real terms
-18.4%
Median per m²
£3,645
HM Land Registry162 sales25 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026
Section 01
How Down Road, Guildford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Down Road, Guildford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £92,500 | £205,394 |
| 2000s | 5 | £264,500 | £481,841 |
| 2010s | 5 | £405,000 | £571,050 |
| 2020s | 2 | £597,000 | £609,978 |
The highest yearly median on record for Down Road, Guildford is £599,975 in 2021; the lowest is £86,750 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £86,750 to £597,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £192,626, so the real change over the whole record is +216.7% — about +3.92% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +12.6% in cash against -18.4% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 30 | 26 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £597,000 | £609,978 |
| 36 | 15 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £465,000 | £475,109 |
| 40 | 29 Aug 2025 | Detached | £755,000 | £771,413 |
| 54 | 15 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £665,000 | £679,457 |
| 62 | 24 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £635,000 | £648,804 |
| 32 | 28 Feb 2025 | Detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 1 | 10 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £460,000 | £470,000 |
| 49 | 29 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £448,000 | £471,403 |
| 16 | 12 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £570,000 | £599,776 |
| 4 | 23 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £625,000 | £657,649 |
| 52 | 2 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £537,500 | £565,578 |
| 37 | 21 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £518,621 |
| 40 | 24 Mar 2023 | Detached | £748,000 | £808,184 |
| 12 | 30 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £630,000 | £729,910 |
| 22 | 27 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £660,000 | £764,667 |
| 11 | 17 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £600,000 | £758,065 |
| 36 | 30 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £420,000 | £530,645 |
| 43c | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £431,500 | £545,175 |
| 54 | 12 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £630,000 | £795,968 |
| 55 | 4 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £599,950 | £758,001 |
| 4 | 26 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £631,000 | £797,231 |
| 43b | 25 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £390,000 | £504,959 |
| 39 | 10 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £665,000 | £861,019 |
| 54 | 10 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £615,000 | £796,281 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Down Road, Guildford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Down Road | £112,500 (1997) | £375,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.6% |
| 30 Down Road | £390,000 (2012) | £597,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 36 Down Road | £420,000 (2021) | £465,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -2.7% |
| 40 Down Road | £110,000 (2000) | £755,000 (2025) | +8.0% | +5.1% |
| 54 Down Road | £92,500 (1996) | £665,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 62 Down Road | £335,000 (2018) | £635,000 (2025) | +9.6% | +5.5% |
| 49 Down Road | £126,000 (1998) | £448,000 (2024) | +5.0% | +2.3% |
| 4 Down Road | £363,000 (2019) | £625,000 (2024) | +11.5% | +6.7% |
| 52 Down Road | £207,500 (2002) | £537,500 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 37 Down Road | £83,000 (1995) | £480,000 (2023) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 12 Down Road | £109,950 (1997) | £630,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.7% |
| 22 Down Road | £133,000 (2000) | £660,000 (2022) | +7.6% | +4.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Down Road, Guildford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 121 | 74.7% | £270,000 | £83,000 – £674,888 |
| Terraced | 24 | 14.8% | £281,500 | £68,000 – £660,000 |
| Detached | 17 | 10.5% | £375,000 | £110,000 – £775,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Down Road, Guildford
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 162 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 162 | 100.0% | £283,250 |
| New build | 1 | 0.6% | £580,000 |
| Existing home | 161 | 99.4% | £281,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +106.0%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 2 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Down Road, Guildford
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Guildford, 44.5% of 69,674 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 474 | 0.7% |
| B | 6,974 | 10.0% |
| C | 23,575 | 33.8% |
| D | 25,266 | 36.3% |
| E | 10,324 | 14.8% |
| F | 2,487 | 3.6% |
| G | 574 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Guildford at £1,731 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,181 for a one-bedroom home and £1,859 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £283,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.33% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of GU1, 415 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 116 violent, 9 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 62 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.5 times busier.
Against the 143,650 residents the 2021 census counted in Guildford, that is 2.89 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Down Road, Guildford
The 2021 census counted 143,650 residents in Guildford across 55,760 households. 67.6% of those households own their home and 32.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a GU1 postcode: 7 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Abbot School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,927 |
| St Peter's Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,360 |
| Boxgrove Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 646 |
| Christ's College, Guildford | Secondary | Academy converter | 641 |
| St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 436 |
| Holy Trinity, Guildford, CofE Aided Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 368 |
| Merrow Junior School | Primary | Foundation school | 209 |
| Sandfield Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 209 |
| Pewley Down Infant School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 180 |
| Guildford Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 174 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| London Road (Guildford) Rail Station | Rail | 0.3 km |
| Guildford Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Shalford (Surrey) Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Chilworth Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
Section 09
How Down Road, Guildford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Down Road, Guildford sits above that national figure — +79.8%.
Within Guildford the street ranks 662 of 1153 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £274,995 (+3.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,645 per square metre, across 25 of the 162 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £68,000 to £775,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Down Road, Guildford sits in Guildford, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Guildford at 11.0 times median local earnings of £45,061 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Epsom Road£248,000 median
- London Road£279,998 median
- York Road£140,000 median
- Walnut Tree Close£255,000 median
- Addison Road£285,500 median
- St Lukes Square£148,000 median
- High Path Road£250,000 median
- Josephs Road£170,000 median
- Warren Road£225,000 median
- Martyr Road£221,500 median
- Stoke Road£250,000 median
- Woking Road£262,313 median
- Sydenham Road£229,950 median
- Old Farm Road£208,000 median
- Drummond Road£203,500 median
- Albury Road£272,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 54 Down Road7 sales
- 37 Down Road7 sales
- 49 Down Road6 sales
- 43B Down Road6 sales
- 59 Down Road6 sales
- 40 Down Road5 sales
- 52 Down Road5 sales
- 10 Down Road5 sales
- 19 Down Road5 sales
- 21 Down Road4 sales
- 22 Down Road4 sales
- 5 Down Road4 sales
- 51 Down Road4 sales
- 26 Down Road4 sales
- 2 Down Road4 sales
- 76 Down Road4 sales
- 24 Down Road4 sales
- 43A Down Road4 sales
- 4 Down Road3 sales
- 12 Down Road3 sales
- 11 Down Road3 sales
- 74 Down Road3 sales
- 50 Down Road3 sales
- 8 Down Road3 sales
Back to Guildford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Down Road, Guildford?
The median price paid in Down Road, Guildford across every sale on the register is £283,250. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Down Road, Guildford?
162 sales are on record for Down Road, Guildford, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Down Road, Guildford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +12.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -18.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Down Road, Guildford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £599,975, set in 2021. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Down Road, Guildford?
£3,645 per square metre, from the 25 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 15 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Down Road, Guildford house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.