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Katesgrove market report RG1 6, Reading
The RG1 6 (Katesgrove) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,523 HM Land Registry entries for RG1 6 (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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in RG1 6 (Reading) sold for £260,000 in 2026, the median of 47 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £303,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,240 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,523 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 6 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 6 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 6 prices, from the sold record
The RG1 6 median stands at £260,000 for 2026, built from 47 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £303,900, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in RG1 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG1 6 costs about £4,240 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG1 6 sits 9% below the national market.
A typical RG1 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £335,200 | £343,216 | 122 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 129 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 116 |
| 2022 | £305,500 | £358,234 | 134 |
| 2021 | £283,000 | £358,315 | 134 |
| 2020 | £315,000 | £408,719 | 116 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 189 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 129 |
| 2017 | £279,000 | £380,528 | 126 |
| 2016 | £266,800 | £373,256 | 144 |
| 2015 | £247,500 | £349,718 | 197 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 183 |
| 2013 | £184,000 | £264,758 | 143 |
| 2012 | £179,500 | £264,202 | 118 |
| 2011 | £171,900 | £259,503 | 104 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 95 |
| 2009 | £172,500 | £277,295 | 117 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 140 |
| 2007 | £187,200 | £317,543 | 216 |
| 2006 | £168,200 | £291,974 | 238 |
| 2005 | £164,000 | £291,854 | 199 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 230 |
| 2003 | £171,000 | £315,023 | 266 |
| 2002 | £144,000 | £270,935 | 248 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 276 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 225 |
| 1999 | £79,500 | £158,439 | 243 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 238 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 303 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 201 |
| 1995 | £50,500 | £109,779 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 6 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 137%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 37% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 6 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 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−22.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −22.4% | −24.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.7% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.3% | −3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in RG1 6
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 47 RG1 6 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 237 sales a year before the financial crisis and 110 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 rental side of RG1 6
The local authority for RG1 6 is Reading, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £260,000 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 7.3%: 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.
Reading the RG1 6 market
This is a thin market: 47 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 people ask about RG1 6 (Katesgrove)
Is RG1 6 (Katesgrove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG1 6 (Katesgrove)?
Are property prices falling in RG1 6 (Katesgrove)?
Will RG1 6 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 →
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
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 | — | £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. 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 5 | £295,000 | 29 |
| 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 6? 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 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG1 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG1 6 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 6.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG1 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RG1 6 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.