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Katesgrove market report RG1, Reading
The RG1 (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: 27,914 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG1 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for RG1 (Reading) is £280,000, from 198 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £287,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,450 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 27,914 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG1 is the postcode district covering Katesgrove, Newtown, Reading (central) in Reading. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where RG1 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
Take the 198 registered 2026 sales in RG1 and the middle price, the median, is £280,000. The mean lands at £287,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
RG1 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG1 costs about £4,450 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 trades 2% below the country as a whole.
A typical RG1 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 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 198 |
| 2025 | £302,000 | £309,222 | 551 |
| 2024 | £297,000 | £315,772 | 553 |
| 2023 | £314,300 | £345,339 | 624 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 781 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 651 |
| 2020 | £282,000 | £365,901 | 467 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 612 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 623 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 677 |
| 2016 | £260,000 | £363,743 | 1,009 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 996 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 920 |
| 2013 | £187,500 | £269,794 | 727 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 559 |
| 2011 | £177,400 | £267,806 | 547 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 635 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 682 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 631 |
| 2007 | £193,000 | £327,382 | 1,312 |
| 2006 | £176,800 | £306,902 | 1,306 |
| 2005 | £170,500 | £303,421 | 1,156 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 1,429 |
| 2003 | £151,700 | £279,468 | 1,226 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 1,345 |
| 2001 | £116,500 | £223,965 | 1,242 |
| 2000 | £107,200 | £210,380 | 1,248 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 1,213 |
| 1998 | £68,600 | £138,474 | 1,165 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 1,181 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 929 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 719 |
In cash terms the typical RG1 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG1 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 (+34.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.3% | −9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 48% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £585,000 against £225,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, RG1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £585,000 (2025) | – | 911 |
| Semi-detached | £377,500 | 12 | 2,645 |
| Terraced | £320,000 | 79 | 11,085 |
| Flats | £225,000 | 103 | 13,269 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 422 sales completed in RG1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,283 sales a year before the financial crisis and 541 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 tenants pay around RG1
For renting purposes RG1 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 £280,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.8%. 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 kind of market RG1 is
By median price RG1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
RG1 (Katesgrove): the questions that come up
Is RG1 (Katesgrove) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG1 (Katesgrove)?
Are property prices falling in RG1 (Katesgrove)?
What happens to RG1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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
Everything above is what homes in RG1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 159 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the RG1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
RG1 ranks 25 of 30 in the RG area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
RG area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside RG1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| RG1 8 | £372,800 | 12 |
How RG1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the RG area, and RG1 itself, which ranks 30 of 30 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RG9 | £695,000 | -2% |
| RG29 | £617,000 | +23% |
| RG25 | £610,000 | +26% |
| RG10 | £600,000 | +5% |
| RG20 | £542,500 | +6% |
| RG8 | £500,000 | -13% |
| RG4 | £487,500 | +4% |
| RG7 | £465,500 | +1% |
| RG42 | £465,000 | +3% |
| RG45 | £460,000 | -8% |
| RG40 | £455,000 | +1% |
| RG5 | £445,000 | +7% |
| RG27 | £445,000 | -1% |
| RG6 | £442,500 | +5% |
| RG41 | £442,500 | -5% |
| RG28 | £435,000 | +16% |
| RG31 | £403,300 | +12% |
| RG26 | £390,000 | +11% |
| RG23 | £387,500 | +3% |
| RG2 | £385,000 | +3% |
| RG18 | £380,000 | +0% |
| RG17 | £375,000 | -3% |
| RG12 | £370,000 | +14% |
| RG1 (this report) | £280,000 | -2% |
Selling a home in RG1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG1'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.
Estate agents working RG1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RG1 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.