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Katesgrove market report RG1 7, Reading
The standing RG1 7 (Katesgrove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,637 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RG1 7 (Reading) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for RG1 7 (Reading) is £257,000, from 31 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £254,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,020 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,637 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like RG1 7 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 7 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.
The going rate for a home in RG1 7
In the RG1 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £257,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £254,800, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
RG1 7 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of RG1 7 sales average about £4,020 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RG1 7 10% below the country at large.
RG1 7's median sold price, 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 | £257,000 | £257,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £257,500 | £263,658 | 92 |
| 2024 | £268,000 | £284,939 | 93 |
| 2023 | £275,000 | £302,158 | 82 |
| 2022 | £244,200 | £286,352 | 80 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 82 |
| 2020 | £246,200 | £319,450 | 54 |
| 2019 | £232,000 | £304,096 | 79 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 108 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 110 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 215 |
| 2015 | £196,000 | £276,948 | 216 |
| 2014 | £171,000 | £242,593 | 164 |
| 2013 | £175,500 | £252,527 | 114 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 91 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 91 |
| 2010 | £159,000 | £249,353 | 124 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 207 |
| 2008 | £176,800 | £289,813 | 108 |
| 2007 | £169,000 | £286,671 | 267 |
| 2006 | £164,000 | £284,683 | 191 |
| 2005 | £151,200 | £269,075 | 151 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 237 |
| 2003 | £147,200 | £271,178 | 228 |
| 2002 | £126,500 | £238,009 | 190 |
| 2001 | £107,000 | £205,702 | 246 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 199 |
| 1999 | £68,400 | £136,318 | 219 |
| 1998 | £65,100 | £131,409 | 159 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 161 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 131 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 7 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £257,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 146%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 28% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 7 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 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG1 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.2% | −2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
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 31 RG1 7 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 214 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
How RG1 7 trades
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG1 7 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 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around RG1 7
For renting purposes RG1 7 sits in Reading. The ONS average private rent there is £1,577 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, which against the £257,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.4%. 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.
What people ask about RG1 7 (Katesgrove)
Is RG1 7 (Katesgrove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG1 7 (Katesgrove)?
Are property prices falling in RG1 7 (Katesgrove)?
Will RG1 7 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
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 4 | £250,000 | 15 |
| RG1 5 | £295,000 | 29 |
| RG1 6 | £260,000 | 47 |
| 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 7? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG1 7'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG1 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG1 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RG1 7 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.
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.