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Katesgrove market report RG1 2, Reading
The standing RG1 2 (Katesgrove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,137 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RG1 2 (Reading) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in RG1 2 (Reading) sold for £285,000 in 2026, the median of 29 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £277,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,190 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,137 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like RG1 2 is a single group of streets within RG1 (Reading), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RG1 2 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.
Today's RG1 2 prices, from the sold record
Across 29 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG1 2 home went for £285,000. The mean is £277,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in RG1 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of RG1 2 sales average about £4,190 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG1 2 sits 0% above the national market.
A typical RG1 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £299,000 | £306,150 | 67 |
| 2024 | £283,500 | £301,419 | 68 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 61 |
| 2022 | £308,500 | £361,751 | 66 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 99 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 71 |
| 2019 | £258,800 | £339,225 | 50 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 54 |
| 2017 | £275,000 | £375,072 | 69 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 87 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 66 |
| 2014 | £215,000 | £305,015 | 106 |
| 2013 | £180,500 | £259,721 | 84 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 63 |
| 2011 | £173,500 | £261,918 | 72 |
| 2010 | £183,000 | £286,991 | 73 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 59 |
| 2008 | £191,500 | £313,909 | 66 |
| 2007 | £190,800 | £323,650 | 141 |
| 2006 | £170,500 | £295,966 | 146 |
| 2005 | £172,500 | £306,980 | 155 |
| 2004 | £169,400 | £307,663 | 190 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 202 |
| 2002 | £138,000 | £259,646 | 171 |
| 2001 | £112,500 | £216,276 | 128 |
| 2000 | £97,500 | £191,344 | 119 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 159 |
| 1998 | £63,500 | £128,179 | 128 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 133 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 86 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 2 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 191%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 2 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 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in RG1 2
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.
RG1 2 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 157 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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.
The shape of the RG1 2 market
This is a thin market: 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
What homes rent for around RG1 2
The local authority for RG1 2 is Reading, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,577 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,118 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,362, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Reading
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £285,000 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 6.6%: 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.
What people ask about RG1 2 (Katesgrove)
Is RG1 2 (Katesgrove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG1 2 (Katesgrove)?
Are property prices falling in RG1 2 (Katesgrove)?
Will RG1 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
What is for sale in RG1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 159 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG1 district, not just RG1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every RG1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in RG: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £444,995 | £595,000 (+34%) | £830,000 (+39%) | £1,200,000 (+45%) |
| Semi-detached | £310,000 | £385,000 (+24%) | £455,500 (+18%) | £579,500 (+27%) | £784,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £295,000 | £340,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+10%) | £485,000 (+29%) | £650,000 (+34%) |
| Flat | £200,000 | £270,000 (+35%) | £409,950 (+52%) | £638,750 (+56%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
RG area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in RG1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG1 1 | £180,000 | 5 |
| RG1 3 | £290,000 | 30 |
| RG1 4 | £250,000 | 15 |
| RG1 5 | £295,000 | 29 |
| RG1 6 | £260,000 | 47 |
| RG1 7 | £257,000 | 31 |
| RG1 8 | £372,800 | 12 |
Zoom out to the full RG1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RG1 2? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG1 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG1 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG1 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG1 2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RG1 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.