A typical Cranleigh house costs about £595,000, and that is before anyone mentions the extension. Detached houses sell more than anything else. Flats hardly come up. The cheap end is a terrace, and there aren't many of those. Cranleigh is priced for people who have already sold a house somewhere else.
In the Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026, 127 homes sold at a median of about £595,000. The 65 detached houses, the biggest group by a distance, went for a median of about £705,000. The 39 semi-detached houses sold for about £512,000, the 12 terraces for about £405,000 and the 11 flats for about £230,000. The detached house isn't an upgrade here. It is the local market, and everything else is a side street off it.
Prices aren't going anywhere fast. The published house-price index for the area was up about 2% in the twelve months to May 2026, with an average of about £567,000, and about 17% over five years. Flats in the same index were up by about 0.1% over the year, which is barely a change at all. Nobody is getting rich overnight in Cranleigh, and nobody is panicking either.
Band D is the most common council-tax band, and only about 5% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill here runs to about £2,605 a year. The valuation list assumes you live in something substantial, and it is usually right.
The typical private rent across the Waverley area was about £1,440 a month in April 2026. That figure covers the whole local authority, not Cranleigh alone, and it is an average from the Office for National Statistics rent index rather than a median of advertised listings. Across Waverley, a one-bed typically rents for about £1,040 a month, a two-bed about £1,340, a three-bed about £1,610 and a four-bed or bigger about £2,340. There are no reliable figures for studios or single rooms, so none are given here.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income across Cranleigh at about £73,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That is a comfortable income by most measures, and the typical house still costs about £595,000. For a first-time buyer on one salary, the maths doesn't work without help. For a couple who sold a flat in a pricier postcode, it is the whole point of moving.
Among the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 67% of them, the median price was about £5,400 per square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is about 105 square metres. So you are paying for proper family space rather than a postcode premium on a shoebox, which is how Surrey pricing usually goes.
At the 2021 census, about 11% of Cranleigh's homes had one bedroom, 20% had two, 36% had three and 33% had four or more. About two-thirds of the village has three bedrooms or more. Buyers searching for a two-bed starter home will find the listings thin and competitive.
House prices in Cranleigh are middling for Surrey: steep for anyone starting out, fair for anyone arriving with equity, and steady rather than exciting. The house you can afford here depends mostly on what you sold before you arrived.