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Surrey · Q2 2026

Woking prices slip 3.7% as council Section 114 hangover keeps town centre on pause

A £427,500 median across 1,112 sales, a town-centre tall-building pause and a thin local planning picture leave Surrey developers leaning on resale comparables.

Median sale price
£431,000
-3.1% YoY
Median price trend
£431k
Pending dev applications
29
444 units
Pipeline value (GDV)
£190.6m
63% approval rate (recent decisions)

Woking's Q2 2026 picture is one of correction, not collapse: prices are down 3.7% year on year against a £427,500 median, transaction depth remains healthy at 1,112 sales, and the borough council's Section 114 hangover continues to weigh on town-centre regeneration. For developers, that mix shapes scheme selection, ticket sizing and exit assumptions across the GU21, GU22 and KT14 postcodes.

What's driving the Woking market

Woking's median sale price sits at £427,500 across 1,112 transactions in the last twelve months, with prices down 3.7% year on year. That correction is sharper than neighbouring Guildford, where the equivalent median holds at £495,000 with prices essentially flat. The unit-mix spread is wide: detached stock trades at a £755,000 median, semis at £462,750, terraces at £385,000 and flats at £255,000. Of the 1,112 transactions, 95 were new-build and 1,017 were existing stock, with the new-build sample registering a 24.4% discount to the wider median, an unusual inversion that reflects flatted new-stock concentrated in the GU21 town-centre belt rather than family product in the outer villages. Woking Borough Council's June 2023 Section 114 notice and subsequent financial commitments to government remain a defining variable: the council's ongoing asset disposal programme and the continuing pause on tall-building approvals in the town centre are reshaping what gets built and where lenders are comfortable.

Market data at a glance

The Woking numbers, visualised

Median sale price by property type

1,621 sales clearing across the type-mix

F
£255k
£254,500
T
£394k
£393,750
S
£475k
£475,000
D
£770k
£770,000

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid, rolling 12 months.

New build mix

-25.3% premium
104
1,517
New build · 6.4%Existing stock
Planning approval rate
63%approved
of 56 decided applications
Woking quarterly median price & volume
Median sale priceTransactions

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Median computed across all registered transactions per period.

How Woking compares
Market
Median
YoY
12m txns
Woking
£431,000
-3.1%
1,621
South East average
£400,000
+1.1%
—
UK average
£285,000
+1.4%
—

Development pipeline

Live planning activity in Woking

Idox planning extracts for Woking Borough Council were not available in this dataset, so we are reluctant to publish a pending-unit or pipeline-GDV figure we cannot stand behind. What we can say from on-the-ground activity and adjoining borough comparators: Surrey planning has tilted sharply toward smaller residential infill, single-plot replacement dwellings in the green-belt commuter villages, and householder-led density plays. Tall-building applications inside the GU21 town-centre boundary have effectively been on hold since the council's financial restructuring, with the Victoria Square aftermath still casting a long shadow over lender appetite for high-rise schemes. Developers we speak to are running schemes through Guildford, Mole Valley and Elmbridge in preference to Woking proper where the project is at all tall-building adjacent. The practical effect is that Woking's near-term pipeline is biased toward sub-ten-unit schemes, conversions and replacement-dwelling work in the outer villages around Pyrford, Byfleet and West End rather than central regeneration plots. We are tracking the council's next budget cycle and updated Local Plan position closely, because either could re-open ticket sizes that are currently dormant.
Top schemes by GDV in the pipeline

Notable pending applications

PendingPLAN/2025/0831
162
units

Outline planning application (all matters reserved except access) for erection of up to 162 dwellings (including 50% affordable housing) together with associated access, parking, pedestrian and cycle routes, green infrastructure (including public open space, play space and landscaping) and drainage (Amended Plans and Documents).

Land North East Of Saunders Lane Saunders Lane Woking Surrey
£69.8m
Filed Oct 2025
PendingPLAN/2025/0832
147
units

Outline planning application (all matters reserved except access) for erection of up to 147 dwellings (including 50% affordable housing) together with associated access, parking, pedestrian and cycle routes, green infrastructure (including public open space, play space and landscaping) and drainage (Amended Plans and Documents).

Land North West Of Saunders Lane Saunders Lane Woking Surrey
£63.4m
Filed Oct 2025
PendingPLAN/2026/0071
40
units

Application under S.106A of The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for a Deed of Variation to the S.106 Agreement dated 5 October 1998 attached to planning permission PLAN/1998/0491 (for the erection of 40 residential units) to amend the 'Mortgagee in Possession' Clause and insert a provision to confirm that any previous S.106 Agreements are discharged.

Vale Farm Road Site Vale Farm Road Woking Surrey
£17.2m
Filed Jan 2026
PendingPLAN/2026/0573
30
units

Formal Consultation from Surrey Heath Borough Council for an Outline planning application for 30 dwellings, associated parking, landscaping and access and demolition of existing buildings (all matters reserved with only access considered). (Your ref. 25/0284/OOU).

Surrey Heath Borough Council Gloucester Square Woking Surrey
£12.9m
Filed Aug 2026
PendingHABREG/2026/0004
27
units

Approval under Regulation 75 of The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 for application ref: PLAN/2025/0335 (Prior Approval under the provisions of Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) for change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) to provide 27x residential units).

6 Church Street West Woking Surrey GU21 6DJ
£11.6m
Filed Apr 2026
PendingPLAN/2026/0184
4
units

Construction of 2 x detached 4 bedroom dwellings and associated landscaping following the demolition of the existing storage buildings.

Barnsmoor Yard 29A Moor Lane Woking Surrey
£3.1m
Filed Jun 2026

Source: Woking Borough Council portal. GDV estimates use local sales medians by property type.

Sales activity

Recent Woking sold prices

Recent transactions confirm the bifurcated mix. At the top end, Little Bridley on Berry Lane (GU3 3QF) traded at £2.9m in March and Revilo on Maybourne Rise (GU22 0SH) cleared at £1.925m on the same day, both green-belt detached replacements that illustrate where the upper-quartile money is moving. In the family-house bracket, 34 Blackwood Close (KT14 6PP) achieved £940,000 and 150 Hermitage Woods Crescent (GU21 8UH) £730,000. Mid-market activity clustered around the £340,000 to £505,000 band, with 40 Howards Road (GU22 9AS) at £460,000 and 48 Well Lane (GU21 4PP) at £505,000 representing the typical semi-detached profile. Flatted stock cleared between £180,000 (Flat 13, Palace Court, Maybury Road, GU21 5HP) and the high £280,000s in central GU22. The dataset reinforces a hard rule for developers underwriting Woking schemes: GU3 and GU22 outer postcodes carry pricing power, GU21 central flatted product carries pricing risk.

Latest registered sales

Land Registry · 28 September 2026
DateAddressTypeTenurePrice
22 July 2026
3, DIGBY WAYTF£425,000
20 July 2026
14, NURSERY ROADSF£403,000
17 July 2026
5, GREEN VIEWSF£750,000
17 July 2026
92, LOVELACE DRIVEDF£960,000
17 July 2026
128, WESTFIELD ROADSF£430,000
15 July 2026
27, OLD MALT WAYDF£790,000
13 July 2026
62, CONNAUGHT CRESCENTTF£440,000
13 July 2026
8, OLD ORCHARDFL£330,000

Woking's town-centre tall-building activity remains on pause, pushing 2026 development capital toward outer-village replacement plots in GU3, GU22 and KT14.

For developers

What this means for Woking schemes

For senior debt on Woking residential schemes, 65-70% LTGDV remains the typical envelope, with all-in rates of 9-12% depending on track record and exit certainty. The 3.7% YoY price drift means valuers are pricing in optimism less aggressively than they were eighteen months ago, so developers should test their GDV assumptions against the £427,500 median rather than the £755,000 detached number. Schemes pricing into GU3, GU22 outer postcodes and the KT14 Byfleet belt enjoy the deepest comparable evidence and the broadest lender choice. Anything stretching above £900,000 unit pricing needs proper comparable depth on file from day one. Bridging is from 0.65% per month and is doing the work on replacement-dwelling acquisitions and PD-route conversions, where land assembly and CIL/Section 106 negotiations with a financially-constrained council are pushing timelines beyond what a senior facility's drawdown profile will tolerate. Mezzanine to 75-80% LTGDV remains available for schemes with credible pre-sales or end-finance evidence, though appetite thins quickly above ten units inside GU21.
Where we fund in Woking

Outlook

The next 12 months in Woking

We expect Woking's pipeline to stay weighted toward outer-village replacement dwellings, small infill schemes and conversion work through the second half of 2026, with the town-centre regeneration story remaining on hold until the council's financial position stabilises. The 3.7% correction is not euphoric, but it is the environment where well-structured development finance still gets done, particularly on schemes priced into the resale median rather than aspirational new-build pricing. Developers active in GU3, GU22 and KT14 should benchmark exits against the existing-stock data and assume valuers will discount aggressively in GU21 central until central applications resume. We continue to place capital across Surrey on schemes with credible numbers and prudent contingency.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (sold prices); Woking Borough Council planning portal (planning applications); ONS House Price Index (regional benchmarks). Report generated 20 May 2026 by Construction Capital's market intelligence team.

Methodology: Pending GDV is estimated by multiplying declared unit counts by local sales medians for the corresponding property type. Approval rate is the share of decided applications (last 12 months) granted permission. Sold-price changes are year-on-year comparisons of the median sale price. Pipeline activity refers to residential development applications only — household extensions, conditions variations, and other non-development applications are excluded. Construction Capital is a trading name of Lenzie Consulting Ltd. (08174104).