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Reading market report RG
The RG (Reading) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 465,332 HM Land Registry entries for the RG postcode area (Reading), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical the RG postcode area (Reading) home changed hands for £398,000 in 2026 (median of 5,145 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £452,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,690 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 465,332 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The figures for RG centred on Reading run across 30 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where RG sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What RG homes really sell for
The RG median stands at £398,000 for 2026, built from 5,145 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £452,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in RG
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG costs about £4,690 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG trades 40% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RG home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £398,000 | £398,000 | 5,145 |
| 2025 | £416,300 | £426,255 | 12,277 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 11,833 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 11,040 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 13,917 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 17,351 |
| 2020 | £372,500 | £483,326 | 11,436 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 12,972 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 13,312 |
| 2017 | £347,400 | £473,819 | 13,200 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 13,569 |
| 2015 | £297,500 | £420,368 | 14,462 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 15,024 |
| 2013 | £247,500 | £356,128 | 13,310 |
| 2012 | £242,000 | £356,194 | 11,000 |
| 2011 | £236,200 | £356,571 | 10,738 |
| 2010 | £239,000 | £374,814 | 11,009 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 10,995 |
| 2008 | £226,000 | £370,462 | 10,480 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 18,858 |
| 2006 | £219,000 | £380,156 | 20,396 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 16,251 |
| 2004 | £198,000 | £359,607 | 18,978 |
| 2003 | £184,000 | £338,973 | 17,169 |
| 2002 | £169,000 | £317,972 | 19,456 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 19,242 |
| 2000 | £131,500 | £258,069 | 16,734 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 20,226 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 16,874 |
| 1997 | £84,500 | £173,292 | 18,267 |
| 1996 | £77,500 | £163,444 | 16,618 |
| 1995 | £74,200 | £161,299 | 13,193 |
In cash terms the typical RG home went from £74,200 in 1995 to £398,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1999 (+17.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−4.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £625,000 against £220,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, RG
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £625,000 | 1,362 | 135,004 |
| Semi-detached | £430,000 | 1,319 | 115,311 |
| Terraced | £350,000 | 1,452 | 131,760 |
| Flats | £220,000 | 1,012 | 83,257 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.4% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.1% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in RG
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 9,252 RG sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 18,386 sales a year before the financial crisis and 10,842 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around RG
For renting purposes RG sits in West Berkshire, the local authority covering most of the RG area (parts fall under Basingstoke and Deane and Wokingham, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £902 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,121, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, West Berkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £398,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 3.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the RG market
Turnover here is strong: 9,252 sales in the last twelve months of data, enough that the medians rest on a genuinely broad base and one street cannot move the figure.
What people ask about RG (Reading)
How much did a house sell for in RG (Reading)?
Are property prices falling in RG (Reading)?
Is RG (Reading) a good place to buy a house?
Are RG prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in RG today
Everything above is what homes in RG sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1,937 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the RG median sold price.
Set against 9,252 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 1,937 homes on the market here are roughly 3 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
12% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every RG home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
When homes in RG change hands
March is when RG changes hands most (11.0% of the 66,418 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.4%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4,620 | 7.0% |
| February | 5,312 | 8.0% |
| March | 7,304 | 11.0% |
| April | 4,221 | 6.4% |
| May | 4,732 | 7.1% |
| June | 7,206 | 10.8% |
| July | 4,698 | 7.1% |
| August | 5,544 | 8.3% |
| September | 6,090 | 9.2% |
| October | 5,693 | 8.6% |
| November | 5,541 | 8.3% |
| December | 5,457 | 8.2% |
Bedroom by bedroom: RG prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RG area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £390,000 | £435,000 (+12%) | £499,475 (+15%) | £615,000 (+23%) | £790,000 (+28%) |
| Semi-detached | £280,000 | £357,500 (+28%) | £425,000 (+19%) | £520,000 (+22%) | £642,500 (+24%) |
| Terraced | £238,500 | £320,000 (+34%) | £350,000 (+9%) | £417,250 (+19%) | £490,000 (+17%) |
| Flat | £180,000 | £240,000 (+33%) | £305,000 (+27%) | £397,000 (+30%) | £547,500 (+38%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the RG area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable RG district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| RG9 Henley-on-Thames, Hambleden | £718,000 | +1% | 145 |
| RG25 Cliddesden, Dummer | £648,500 | +34% | 49 |
| RG29 Long Sutton, Odiham | £634,000 | +27% | 31 |
| RG10 Charvil, Hurst | £577,000 | +1% | 109 |
| RG20 Ashmansworth, Chieveley | £535,000 | +5% | 94 |
| RG8 Goring, Streatley | £530,000 | -8% | 79 |
| RG4 Caversham, Sonning | £485,000 | +3% | 275 |
| RG6 Earley | £470,000 | +12% | 209 |
| RG45 Crowthorne, Ravenswood | £465,000 | -7% | 125 |
| RG42 Bracknell (north), Binfield | £463,500 | +3% | 184 |
| RG7 Aldermaston, Beenham | £457,500 | -1% | 214 |
| RG40 Wokingham (east and town centre), Finchampstead | £457,000 | +2% | 197 |
| RG5 Woodley | £450,000 | +8% | 171 |
| RG41 Wokingham (west), Winnersh | £450,000 | -3% | 163 |
| RG27 Hook, Sherfield-on-Loddon | £445,000 | -1% | 175 |
| RG28 Laverstoke, Litchfield | £432,500 | +15% | 42 |
| RG31 Calcot, Tilehurst (west) | £405,000 | +12% | 167 |
| RG26 Baughurst, Bramley | £390,000 | +11% | 144 |
| RG18 Hampstead Norreys, Hermitage | £385,000 | +1% | 107 |
| RG2 Madejski Stadium, Whitley | £383,000 | +2% | 242 |
| RG17 Chilton Foliat, Eastbury | £380,000 | -2% | 92 |
| RG23 Winklebury, Rooksdown | £375,000 | +0% | 101 |
| RG12 Bracknell (south and town centre), Easthampstead | £371,800 | +14% | 358 |
| RG22 South Ham, Brighton Hill | £365,000 | +18% | 245 |
| RG24 Popley, Chineham | £360,000 | +11% | 325 |
| RG14 Newbury (whole town area) | £356,000 | +11% | 332 |
| RG19 Ashford Hill with Headley, Bishop's Green | £345,000 | +1% | 120 |
| RG30 Tilehurst (east), Prospect Park | £340,100 | +14% | 242 |
| RG21 Town Centre, Eastrop | £289,200 | +7% | 166 |
| RG1 Katesgrove, Newtown | £282,000 | -1% | 242 |
Thinking of selling in RG? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RG sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.