Buying in Haslemere: the data-sheet

Haslemere is the southernmost town in Surrey, in the Waverley district, covered by the GU27 postcode and wrapped on three sides by the Surrey Hills and the Sussex and Hampshire borders. The station sits about 100 metres from the town centroid, on the Portsmouth Direct line, and the surrounding land is steep, wooded and largely protected — which shapes both the housing stock and the broadband picture more than anything else in this sheet.

Each figure below carries the window it was measured over.

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The 6-dimension summary

Dimension	Haslemere (GU27)	Source and vintage
Median sold price	£580,000	HMLR PPD, 12 months to 31 Jul 2026
State primaries and secondaries within 3 km rated Good or Outstanding	6 of 6	Ofsted / GIAS, as at 17 Sep 2026
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents (Waverley)	36.7	Home Office / ONS, year to Mar 2026
Premises with 100 Mbit/s or faster available	55.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Council tax, Band D	£2,604.87	Waverley, 2026/27
Land within 2 km of the centre in Flood Zone 2 or 3	1.2%	EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026

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Schools

Within 3 km of the centre there are five state primary schools and one state secondary. All six hold a Good rating, and no state school in the radius is unrated or below Good — a clean sheet that only Oxted matches among the six towns here.

School	Phase	Ofsted rating	Last inspection	Distance
Woolmer Hill School	State secondary	Good	9 December 2014	2.0 km

That inspection date is the caveat. December 2014 is more than a decade old and predates two framework changes; the grade is accurate as a record and stale as a description. How the Ofsted changes affect school ratings explains what is and is not comparable across eras.

Four independent schools sit within the radius — St Ives at about 1.9 km, Amesbury at 2.1 km, and Undershaw and St Edmund’s at about 2.9 km. Independents inspected by the ISI carry no Ofsted grade, so a blank rating is not a judgement.

What to check. With one state secondary inside the radius, admissions pressure in a given year matters more than the headline grade, and the county border complicates it: some Haslemere addresses look towards schools in West Sussex or Hampshire. Confirm the admissions authority for the specific address, not just the nearest school.

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Crime

Area	Recorded crime per 1,000 residents	Period
Waverley	36.7	Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
Surrey (11 districts)	59.1	Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
England	80.3	Apr 2025 – Mar 2026

Waverley recorded 5,036 offences across a population of 137,218 in the year to March 2026 — the lowest rate of Surrey’s eleven districts, and a little under half the England figure.

That is the district, not the town. Haslemere’s own profile is shaped by a small retail centre and a commuter station, which produce a different category mix from the residential lanes further out. The crime methodology explains how a per-postcode rate is built from Police.uk street-level records, and the lowest-crime Surrey towns on a population-weighted basis puts Waverley in context.

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Broadband

Coverage tier	GU27 (% of premises)	Source
30 Mbit/s or faster	92.9%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
100 Mbit/s or faster	55.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
300 Mbit/s or faster	55.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Gigabit-capable	55.6%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026
Unable to receive 30 Mbit/s	7.1%	Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, loaded 18 Sep 2026

Each figure is the mean, across the 596 postcodes in GU27, of Ofcom’s per-postcode percentage of premises. These are download-speed tiers, not technologies: Ofcom does not publish full-fibre coverage at postcode level, and the tiers nest, so every premise counted at 300 Mbit/s is also counted at 100 and at 30.

This is the weakest connectivity picture of the six towns in this series, and by a clear margin. Just over half of GU27 premises — 55.6% — can reach 100 Mbit/s or faster, and 7.1% cannot reach 30 Mbit/s, against 2.9% in Dorking and 1.1% in Weybridge. Steep, dispersed, tree-covered terrain is expensive to trench, and GU27 has a lot of it.

For a household that works from home, this is the single dimension in this sheet most likely to change which street you buy on. It is also the one with the widest spread between neighbouring postcodes, so the outcode average is close to useless at address level — check the address. The Surrey postcodes still below 30 Mbit/s and Surrey’s rural broadband villages show where the gaps cluster.

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Council Tax

Haslemere is billed by Waverley Borough Council. The 2026/27 charges below include the county, police and fire precepts.

Band	Annual charge 2026/27
Band B	£2,026.01
Band C	£2,315.44
Band D	£2,604.87
Band E	£3,183.73
Band F	£3,762.59
Band G	£4,341.45

Waverley’s Band D is the highest of the four districts in this series. Haslemere’s stock skews towards larger detached houses, so a meaningful share of purchases land in Band F or G rather than D — £3,762.59 and £4,341.45 respectively, which is £1,157.72 and £1,736.58 a year above Band D. Band D by district across Surrey has the previous year’s comparison.

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Property Market

Across the 12 months to 31 July 2026, 240 sales were registered in GU27 at a median of £580,000. The middle half fell between £370,000 and £892,500, and 48 sales — one in five — went above £1m. Leasehold accounted for 21.3%.

Property type	Sales	Median price
Detached	97	£890,000
Semi-detached	50	£575,000
Flat or maisonette	47	£240,000
Terraced	34	£372,500
Other	12	£815,000

Snapshot from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data for sales registered between 1 August 2025 and 31 July 2026. Price Paid Data lags completion by several weeks, so recent months fill in over time.

The spread is the story. The gap between the median detached sale (£890,000) and the median flat (£240,000) is the widest of the six towns in this series — a factor of 3.7. The town-wide median of £580,000 therefore describes almost nothing you could actually buy. In GU27 the type-level median is the number to negotiate against, not the town median.

Energy performance of the local stock. The register holds 8,464 certificates for GU27. Band D is the most common and 40% are rated C or better — the lowest proportion of the six towns except Oxted.

EPC band	Certificates
A	98
B	591
C	2,724
D	3,076
E	1,464
F	404
G	107

A total of 1,975 certificates sit at E or below. Older, larger, solid-wall houses in a protected landscape are difficult and costly to bring up a band, which matters for running costs and, if you are letting, for MEES compliance.

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Flood Risk

Dimension	Within 2 km of Haslemere centre	Source
Land in Flood Zone 3	0.8%	EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026
Land in Flood Zone 2	0.3%	EA Flood Map for Planning, Jul 2026
Land at high surface-water risk	0.27%	EA NaFRA2 RoFSW, Jan 2025
Land at medium surface-water risk	0.16%	EA NaFRA2 RoFSW, Jan 2025

At 1.2% of land within 2 km in Flood Zone 2 or 3, Haslemere has the lowest river-flood exposure of the six towns here — a direct consequence of sitting high on the Greensand with only small streams rather than a main river running through it.

The same topography works the other way for surface water: steep ground sheds water fast, and the 0.27% of land in the Environment Agency’s high band (a greater than 3.3% annual chance of flooding to at least 200 mm) sits in the valley bottoms and along road lines that act as channels. How surface-water flooding works in Surrey explains why the two risks behave differently.

These are land-area percentages, not property counts. Check the zone and surface-water band for the specific address.

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At the viewing stage

• Which admissions authority covers this address — Surrey, West Sussex or Hampshire?
• Is this postcode’s crime rate above or below the Waverley average for residential categories?
• What speed tier does this address actually reach — 100 Mbit/s or faster, or is it among the 7.1% of premises that cannot reach 30 Mbit/s? On GU27 numbers this is the check to do first.
• What band is it, and what is the Waverley 2026/27 charge for that band?
• What have comparable properties of the same type sold for nearby in the past 12 months — not the town median?
• What is its surface-water band, given how little of the town is in a river flood zone?

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Further reading

• Haslemere area data — the same dimensions, kept current, on our Waverley pages
• GU27 outcode data — schools, EPC and market aggregates across the outcode
• Buying in Farnham: the data-sheet — the other Waverley town in this series
• How we assess schools — GIAS, Ofsted records and what a missing rating means

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This article is general information only. It is not financial, legal, or property investment advice. Always obtain independent advice before committing to a property purchase.

Sources. Property market: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright, OGL v3.0, sales registered 1 Aug 2025 – 31 Jul 2026, re-queried 28 Sep 2026 after the 18 Sep 2026 Land Registry reload (HMLR 2026-08-28 restatement). Schools: DfE GIAS and Ofsted inspection records, queried 17 Sep 2026. Crime: Home Office police recorded crime with ONS mid-year population estimates, year to March 2026. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, published 19 November 2025, reporting coverage as at July 2025; loaded to the Home-Checker ofcom_broadband table on 18 September 2026. Each figure is the percentage of premises with that service available, averaged across the 596 GU27 postcodes present in that release. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre coverage at postcode level, so the 100 Mbit/s tier is a speed band, not a technology. Postcodes Ofcom retired between the 2024 and 2025 releases still sit in the table carrying their older values and are excluded from every figure here. Council tax: GOV.UK council tax levels set by local authorities in England, 2026 to 2027 (published 25 March 2026), Table 9. Energy: MHCLG Energy Performance of Buildings Register, outcode aggregate snapshot 21 May 2026. Flood: Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning (artefact vintage 15 July 2026) and NaFRA2 Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (published 28 January 2025). Station distance: OpenStreetMap, straight-line from the town centroid.