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Katesgrove market report RG1 5, Reading
The standing RG1 5 (Katesgrove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,900 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG1 5 (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 5 (Reading) home changed hands for £295,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £309,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,420 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,900 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 5 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 5 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 5 prices, from the sold record
In the RG1 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,000, from 29 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £309,700, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
RG1 5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, RG1 5 homes have averaged around £4,420 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 5 trades 4% above the country as a whole.
RG1 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £310,100 | £317,515 | 98 |
| 2024 | £326,000 | £346,605 | 85 |
| 2023 | £314,600 | £345,669 | 78 |
| 2022 | £308,000 | £361,165 | 115 |
| 2021 | £287,100 | £363,506 | 104 |
| 2020 | £266,000 | £345,140 | 55 |
| 2019 | £297,000 | £389,296 | 77 |
| 2018 | £308,800 | £411,636 | 132 |
| 2017 | £315,000 | £429,628 | 123 |
| 2016 | £278,800 | £390,044 | 90 |
| 2015 | £263,000 | £371,619 | 129 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 131 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 149 |
| 2012 | £178,800 | £263,171 | 130 |
| 2011 | £186,500 | £281,543 | 113 |
| 2010 | £180,400 | £282,914 | 138 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 118 |
| 2008 | £197,000 | £322,925 | 107 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 215 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 241 |
| 2005 | £177,200 | £315,345 | 214 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 214 |
| 2003 | £154,000 | £283,705 | 201 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 229 |
| 2001 | £123,200 | £236,846 | 196 |
| 2000 | £118,100 | £231,771 | 278 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 263 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 266 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 235 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 188 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 5 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 142%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 5 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 (+31.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.2%). 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) | −4.9% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 29 RG1 5 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 224 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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.
Rents around RG1 5
RG1 5 falls under Reading, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,577 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,118 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,362 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Reading
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £295,000 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 6.4%: 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 RG1 5 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.
RG1 5 (Katesgrove): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in RG1 5 (Katesgrove)?
Is RG1 5 (Katesgrove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG1 5 (Katesgrove)?
Are RG1 5 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 19% 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 RG1 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 159 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG1 district, not just RG1 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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.
What another bedroom costs in RG
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
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 4 | £250,000 | 15 |
| 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.
Before you sell in RG1 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG1 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG1 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG1 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG1 5.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RG1 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual RG1 5 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.
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.