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Katesgrove market report RG1 8, Reading
The RG1 8 (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: 2,145 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG1 8 (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 8 (Reading) home changed hands for £372,800 in 2026 (median of 12 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £352,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,145 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RG1 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG1 (Reading). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where RG1 8 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.
What a home in RG1 8 sells for
12 sales were registered in RG1 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £372,800. The mean works out at £352,800, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
What a square metre costs in RG1 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG1 8 costs about £4,720 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG1 8 trades 31% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RG1 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £372,800 | £372,800 | 12 |
| 2025 | £351,800 | £360,213 | 42 |
| 2024 | £340,800 | £362,340 | 42 |
| 2023 | £428,000 | £470,267 | 45 |
| 2022 | £389,000 | £456,147 | 98 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 54 |
| 2020 | £301,200 | £390,813 | 30 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 29 |
| 2018 | £318,000 | £423,900 | 26 |
| 2017 | £333,000 | £454,179 | 42 |
| 2016 | £332,500 | £465,171 | 56 |
| 2015 | £314,000 | £443,682 | 50 |
| 2014 | £248,000 | £351,831 | 63 |
| 2013 | £215,500 | £310,083 | 59 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 34 |
| 2011 | £231,000 | £348,721 | 31 |
| 2010 | £216,000 | £338,744 | 51 |
| 2009 | £189,000 | £303,819 | 50 |
| 2008 | £219,800 | £360,299 | 42 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 121 |
| 2006 | £216,500 | £375,816 | 88 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 147 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 141 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 67 |
| 2002 | £159,500 | £300,098 | 66 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 115 |
| 2000 | £151,000 | £296,338 | 151 |
| 1999 | £93,500 | £186,341 | 72 |
| 1998 | £88,200 | £178,038 | 120 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 69 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 76 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 56 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 8 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £372,800 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 212%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 8 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 (+61.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−20.4%). 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) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Sales activity in RG1 8
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 12 sales completed in RG1 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 112 sales a year before the financial crisis and 48 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.
What kind of market RG1 8 is
Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG1 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within RG1, this sector trades 33% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around RG1 8
For renting purposes RG1 8 sits in Reading. The ONS average private rent there is £1,577 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, which against the £372,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. 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.
RG1 8 (Katesgrove): the questions that come up
Is RG1 8 (Katesgrove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG1 8 (Katesgrove)?
Are property prices falling in RG1 8 (Katesgrove)?
Where do RG1 8 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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
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 8: 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.
"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.
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
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RG1's other sectors, each with 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 7 | £257,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full RG1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RG1 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG1 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG1 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG1 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working RG1 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG1 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RG1 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RG1 8 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.