The average Waverley home sold for £553,429 in July 2026, down 2.6%. Median sold prices for every Farnham postcode, straight from Land Registry records.
Asking prices in agents’ windows are hopes. The number that counts is what homes actually change hands for, and every completed sale in England and Wales is recorded by HM Land Registry and published. This page reads those records for Farnham and the rest of Waverley borough: the headline average, how it splits by property type, and what the middle home sold for in each postcode, from the town centre out to the villages.
One thing to fix before the numbers. The official house price index is published for the whole Waverley borough, which is Farnham plus Godalming, Haslemere, Cranleigh and the countryside between them. Farnham on its own behaves quite differently, and the second half of this page shows how.
The headline figure
The average home in Waverley sold for £553,429 in July 2026, the most recent month published in the UK House Price Index. That is down 2.6% over the year, a fall of £14,723, and it is the steepest annual fall the borough has recorded since May 2024.
The fall has deepened. June was down 0.7% and May was up 1.5%. Two cautions come with it. The average is a mean, not a median, and the Land Registry revises each month for months afterwards: June was first published at £560,596 and down 0.8%, and has since been restated at £560,886 and down 0.7%.
Put the July figure against the borough’s own record and the market has gone nowhere in four years. Waverley peaked at £576,665 in September 2022. It is now £23,236, or 4.0%, below that peak in cash terms, before any allowance for inflation.
Put it against the neighbours and Waverley is falling faster than the county. Over the same twelve months Surrey as a county fell 0.4% and Guildford fell 2.2%, while England rose 1.1%.
What it means for you
If you are buying, the borough is not cheap, but every property type has given ground over the year, and flats have given the most. The useful lever is still geography. The gap between postcodes inside Waverley is wide enough that moving a mile or two buys a materially different house.
If you are selling, the movement is no longer small. A 2.6% fall on a £553,000 home is about £14,700. Which of the four property types you own still matters more than the month, but the direction is now the same for all of them.
If you are staying put, your home is worth less in cash terms than it was in late 2022, and about 2.6% less than it was last summer.
Prices by property type
The average hides a wide spread. These are borough averages for June 2026 from the UK House Price Index, with the annual change alongside:
- Detached houses: £928,184, down 2.5%. The category Waverley is known for, and the one that pulls the borough average so far above the county.
- Semi-detached houses: £540,445, down 1.5%. The type that held up best.
- Terraced houses: £422,493, down 1.8%.
- Flats and maisonettes: £275,273, down 5.0%. By far the steepest fall of the four, and the part of the market first-time buyers compete in.
The same data splits buyers rather than buildings. A first-time buyer in the borough paid an average of £393,787 in July 2026, down 2.5%. A home mover paid £680,891, down 2.6%. The £287,104 between those two figures is the size of the step from a first flat or terrace to a family house here, and it is one of the widest gaps in Surrey.
What each part of the borough actually sells for
This is where the borough average stops being useful.
The table below is our own analysis of 1,637 residential sales in Waverley that completed between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, taken from HM Land Registry Price Paid data and filtered to sales recorded in the Waverley district. It shows the median price, the middle sale, which is less distorted by one enormous house than an average is. The borough median over that period was £540,000.
| Postcode area | Main places | Median sold price | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| GU5 | Bramley, Shamley Green, Wonersh | £743,000 | 67 |
| GU10 | The Farnham villages: Tilford, Frensham, Rowledge, Churt, Wrecclesham fringe | £701,750 | 138 |
| GU8 | Witley, Milford, Elstead, Chiddingfold, Dunsfold | £615,000 | 201 |
| GU6 | Cranleigh, Ewhurst, Alfold | £587,500 | 206 |
| GU27 | Haslemere, Grayswood | £526,000 | 159 |
| GU26 | Hindhead, Beacon Hill | £523,500 | 71 |
| GU7 | Godalming and Farncombe | £493,750 | 370 |
| GU9 | Farnham town | £466,250 | 422 |
Why Farnham looks cheapest, and why that is misleading
GU9 has the lowest median in the borough and the most sales, and both facts come from the same cause: it is the only genuinely urban postcode in Waverley. Flats were 23% of GU9 sales in the period, against 4% in the GU10 villages and 10% in GU8. A median mixes flats and mansions together, so a town with real flats will always sit below a parish of detached houses.
Compare like with like and the picture inverts. Median sold prices by type over the same twelve months:
| Area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farnham villages (GU10) | £1,040,000 | £616,250 | £406,250 | — |
| Haslemere (GU27) | £910,000 | £630,000 | £375,000 | £235,000 |
| Godalming villages (GU8) | £897,500 | £550,000 | £432,000 | £260,000 |
| Godalming (GU7) | £800,000 | £557,500 | £450,000 | £280,000 |
| Farnham town (GU9) | £710,000 | £470,000 | £381,500 | £285,000 |
| Cranleigh (GU6) | £705,000 | £530,000 | £405,000 | £225,000 |
Farnham town has the borough’s most expensive flats (£285,000) and, among the towns, some of its cheaper houses. That is the trade every buyer here actually faces: pay a premium for a flat within walking distance of the station and the Borough, or drive.
Farnham splits four ways
Break GU9 into its four postcode sectors and a £255,750 spread opens up inside a town you can cross in twenty minutes.
| Sector | Roughly | Median | Sales | Detached median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GU9 8 | South Farnham: Great Austins, Ridgway Road, Waverley Lane, Firgrove Hill | £655,750 | 118 | £1,240,000 |
| GU9 0 | Upper Hale, Folly Hill, Hale | £497,500 | 104 | £630,000 |
| GU9 9 | Heath End, Weybourne, Badshot Lea | £445,000 | 101 | £612,500 |
| GU9 7 | Town centre and west: West Street, Abbey Street, East Street | £400,000 | 99 | £780,000 |
South Farnham is the expensive half and it is not close. A detached house in GU9 8 had a median of £1,240,000, roughly double the same shape of house in Heath End or Upper Hale. The town centre sector is last on the median only because 53 of its 99 sales were flats; its detached houses still ran to £780,000.
On individual streets with at least four recorded sales in the year, the highest medians in Farnham were Abbots Ride (£1,525,000), Old Compton Lane (£1,250,000), Firgrove Hill (£1,044,025) and Ridgway Road (£926,250), all of them in GU9 8.
New-build sales across the whole borough had a median of £408,500, well below the borough median, which is what you would expect when much of the recent supply is apartments rather than houses.
How Waverley compares
| Area | Average price | Annual change |
|---|---|---|
| Elmbridge borough | £748,080 | +1.9% |
| Mole Valley district | £555,858 | +2.4% |
| Waverley borough | £553,429 | -2.6% |
| Guildford borough | £532,917 | -2.2% |
| Surrey county | £522,523 | -0.4% |
| East Hampshire district | £440,541 | -1.2% |
| South East region | £380,878 | +0.2% |
| Rushmoor borough | £326,771 | +0.5% |
| England | £293,479 | +1.1% |
The average home here costs about £31,000 more than the Surrey average and 1.9 times the England average. The number worth remembering, though, is the one to the north: Rushmoor, which is Aldershot and Farnborough, averages £326,771. That is £226,658 less than Waverley, and the boundary between them runs along the edge of Farnham. Few borders in the South East are as expensive to cross.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average house price in Farnham?
The official index covers the whole Waverley borough, where the average home sold for £553,429 in July 2026. On completed sales in the year to June 2026, the median price in the GU9 Farnham postcode was £466,250, ranging from £400,000 in the town centre sector to £655,750 in south Farnham.
Are Farnham house prices going up or down?
Down, and the fall is deepening. Waverley prices were down 2.6% in the year to July 2026, the steepest annual fall since May 2024, against a 0.4% fall across Surrey and a 2.2% fall in neighbouring Guildford. England rose 1.1% over the same period. The borough average is 4.0% below its September 2022 peak of £576,665.
How much is a detached house in Farnham?
The borough average for a detached house was £928,184 in July 2026. On completed sales, the median detached house in the GU9 Farnham postcode was £710,000, but that ranged from £612,500 around Heath End to £1,240,000 in south Farnham.
Which part of Farnham is most expensive?
GU9 8, the south Farnham sector covering Great Austins, Ridgway Road, Firgrove Hill and Waverley Lane, at a median of £655,750 across 118 sales. The priciest individual streets there were Abbots Ride and Old Compton Lane, both with medians above £1.2 million.
Is Farnham cheaper than Godalming or Haslemere?
On the raw median, yes: GU9 came out at £466,250 against £493,750 for Godalming and £526,000 for Haslemere. But that is a mix effect. Compare the same house types and Farnham is cheaper for detached and semi-detached homes and more expensive for flats than either town.
Where can I check what a specific house sold for?
Every completed sale in England and Wales is public. Search a street or address for free on the HM Land Registry Price Paid service.
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Sources
- UK House Price Index, Waverley (ONS and HM Land Registry) for the borough average, property-type and buyer-type figures and the annual changes.
- HM Land Registry UKHPI open data for the July 2026 record, and the matching Surrey, Guildford, Elmbridge, Mole Valley, East Hampshire, Rushmoor, South East and England benchmarks. The September 2022 peak comes from the same series.
- HM Land Registry Price Paid data for the postcode, sector and property-type medians, computed from 1,637 residential sales recorded in the Waverley district completing between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026.
Land Registry figures are provisional and revised as more sales are registered. Confirm the latest numbers against the linked sources before making a decision.
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