Average rents on Guernsey, the Channel Islands Crown Dependency, have risen 33.5% over five years, according to official figures released this week — even as the pace of house-price growth and sales activity shows early signs of cooling.
The States of Guernsey’s Residential Property Prices Bulletin put the average rent for local-market properties in the third quarter (July–September) of 2026 at £2,134 a month — down 0.2% on the previous quarter but up 1.1% year-on-year and up 33.5% from five years earlier. The average local-market sale price over the same quarter was £613,694, up 0.8% quarter-on-quarter, 3.6% year-on-year and 10.7% higher than five years ago, based on 199 recorded sales — 62 fewer than the previous quarter and 10 fewer than the same period last year.
James Starkey, head of residential sales at Savills Guernsey, said the quarterly dip in sales volume was “not unexpected,” coinciding with the quieter summer months, and that average values “appear to have stabilised.” He added that higher interest rates and borrowing costs “could well affect people’s desire to move” heading into winter, but noted October’s transaction pace had already outpaced the whole of 2025, putting the island “likely to surpass 100 transactions by the end of December.”
Guernsey sits outside the UK’s tax and stamp duty system and operates its own property and residency framework, making its price and rent trends a distinct data point from mainland UK figures for anyone weighing Channel Islands property or relocation.
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