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Katesgrove market report RG1 4, Reading
The RG1 4 (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: 2,642 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG1 4 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical RG1 4 (Reading) home changed hands for £250,000 in 2026 (median of 15 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £250,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,460 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,642 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RG1 4 is one sector of RG1 (Reading): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where RG1 4 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.
RG1 4 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 15 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG1 4 home went for £250,000. The mean is £250,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
RG1 4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG1 4 costs about £4,460 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RG1 4 12% below the country at large.
A typical RG1 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 41 |
| 2024 | £263,800 | £280,474 | 46 |
| 2023 | £265,000 | £291,170 | 47 |
| 2022 | £270,400 | £317,075 | 62 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 59 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 46 |
| 2019 | £243,200 | £318,777 | 56 |
| 2018 | £267,000 | £355,916 | 55 |
| 2017 | £271,000 | £369,617 | 38 |
| 2016 | £227,000 | £317,575 | 125 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 139 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 106 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 67 |
| 2012 | £185,200 | £272,591 | 50 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 60 |
| 2010 | £174,500 | £273,661 | 66 |
| 2009 | £165,800 | £266,525 | 55 |
| 2008 | £185,100 | £303,418 | 68 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 157 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 142 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 89 |
| 2004 | £166,800 | £302,941 | 120 |
| 2003 | £138,500 | £255,151 | 85 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 248 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 77 |
| 2000 | £112,500 | £220,781 | 83 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 98 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 83 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 92 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 104 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 63 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 4 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 156%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 4 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 2002 (+58.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2003 (−27.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 15 sales completed in RG1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 125 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 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.
What kind of market RG1 4 is
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG1 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within RG1, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of RG1 4
RG1 4 falls under Reading, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Against the £250,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,577 a month (£18,924 a year) works out at a 7.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
RG1 4 (Katesgrove): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in RG1 4 (Katesgrove)?
Are property prices falling in RG1 4 (Katesgrove)?
Is RG1 4 (Katesgrove) a good place to buy a house?
Will RG1 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in RG1 today
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 4: 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.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every RG1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: RG prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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.
Five-year change in the median, RG area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 2 | £285,000 | 29 |
| RG1 3 | £290,000 | 30 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in RG1 4? 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 RG1 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG1 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG1 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working RG1 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG1 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RG1 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RG1 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.