About £525,000 for a typical sale, and nobody is haggling it down. Flats go for about £274,000. Detached houses fetch about £838,000. Prices barely twitched over the year. This is a market holding its breath in an expensive coat, not a market in a hurry.
The Land Registry recorded 294 sales in the year to May 2026, with a median of £525,000. That middle figure hides a wide ladder. Flats went for about £274,000 across 50 sales, terraces for £435,000 across 49, semis for £501,000 across 87 and detached houses for about £838,000 across 108. Detached homes were the biggest single group sold, which tells you where the money in this corner of Surrey sits. The flat is the entry ticket, and even the entry ticket costs more than most first-time buyers have in mind.
Direction of travel is flat, in the plainest sense. The house-price index for the area moved up by less than half a percent in the twelve months to May 2026. Flats in the same index slipped by about 1% over the year. Neither is a crash or a boom. Anyone waiting for the market to collapse into their price range should bring a book.
Council tax follows the house prices up the bands. The most common band is D, and only about 6% of homes sit in the cheapest bands, A and B. A band D bill runs to about £2,600 a year. If you were hoping the council tax would compensate for the purchase price, the valuation list had other ideas.
Renting is priced across the whole borough. The typical private rent across the Woking area was about £1,620 a month as of April 2026, an average drawn from the national rent index and covering everything from town-centre flats to family houses. By size, that works out at about £1,130 a month for a one-bed, £1,440 for a two-bed, £1,755 for a three-bed and about £2,690 for four bedrooms or more. There is no reliable figure for studios or rooms, so any landlord quoting one is working from their own optimism.
Local incomes are healthy, which is the only reason the prices hold. Average gross household income, before tax, was about £74,000 in the financial year to March 2023. Set that beside a £525,000 median and the arithmetic is a stretch even for a well-paid couple, and a serious one for a single buyer. The income figure is a few years old, and the prices have not been waiting for it to catch up.
Measured by floor space, homes sold for a median of about £5,500 per square metre, with the typical matched sale covering 94 square metres. That figure comes from the 219 sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 75% of the total, so it describes the sales that can be measured rather than every one. It is the number to hold up against an asking price when the listing leans heavily on the word "spacious".
The housing is built for families, and it shows in the bedroom count. At the 2021 census, about 38% of homes had four or more bedrooms, 35% had three, 20% had two and only 7% had one. A buyer searching for a one-bed is shopping in the smallest aisle in the shop. A buyer who needs four bedrooms finds the most choice, and pays accordingly.
Houses here are expensive, and the value for money is middling at best. You pay full Surrey prices for a place that sells comfort rather than bargains, and the market shows no sign of offering a discount for patience.