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Katesgrove market report RG1 3, Reading
The RG1 3 (Katesgrove) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,433 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG1 3 (Reading) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical RG1 3 (Reading) home changed hands for £290,000 in 2026 (median of 30 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £288,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,930 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,433 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like RG1 3 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 3 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 3 prices, from the sold record
Across 30 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG1 3 home went for £290,000. The mean is £288,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in RG1 3
Per square metre, RG1 3 homes have averaged around £4,930 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG1 3 trades 2% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RG1 3 home, 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 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £305,000 | £312,293 | 87 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 83 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 180 |
| 2022 | £352,000 | £412,760 | 213 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 114 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 91 |
| 2019 | £302,500 | £396,505 | 126 |
| 2018 | £270,000 | £359,915 | 111 |
| 2017 | £267,200 | £364,434 | 150 |
| 2016 | £277,500 | £388,225 | 193 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 185 |
| 2014 | £204,500 | £290,119 | 152 |
| 2013 | £177,000 | £254,685 | 91 |
| 2012 | £176,500 | £259,786 | 71 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 73 |
| 2010 | £176,200 | £276,327 | 82 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 67 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 92 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 169 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 189 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 177 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 287 |
| 2003 | £141,000 | £259,756 | 164 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 173 |
| 2001 | £115,000 | £221,082 | 197 |
| 2000 | £98,000 | £192,325 | 167 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 150 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 161 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 181 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 135 |
| 1995 | £46,400 | £100,866 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 3 home went from £46,400 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 188%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 3 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 2000 (+30.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.5%). 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) | −4.9% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 30 RG1 3 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 190 sales a year before the financial crisis and 119 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the RG1 3 market
This is a thin market: 30 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around RG1 3
The local authority for RG1 3 is Reading, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,577 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,118 a month here against £2,362 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Reading
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, which against the £290,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on RG1 3 (Katesgrove)
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What happens to RG1 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 4% 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.
RG1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 159 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG1 district, not just RG1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 RG1 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RG: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RG area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, RG area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in RG1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RG1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG1 1 | £180,000 | 5 |
| RG1 2 | £285,000 | 29 |
| 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 a home in RG1 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG1 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RG1 3.
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The live map plots every individual RG1 3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.