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Newbury market report RG14 2
The RG14 2 (Newbury) 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: 5,057 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG14 2 (Newbury) 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: the typical home in RG14 2 (Newbury) sold for £375,000 in 2026, the median of 51 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier. The mean was £411,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,270 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,057 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RG14 2 is one sector of RG14 (Newbury): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where RG14 2 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 RG14 2
In the RG14 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £375,000, from 51 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £411,700, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in RG14 2
The last five years of sales put RG14 2 at roughly £4,270 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RG14 2 32% above the country at large.
The price of a typical RG14 2 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 122 |
| 2024 | £382,500 | £406,676 | 151 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 139 |
| 2022 | £360,500 | £422,727 | 174 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 171 |
| 2020 | £300,000 | £389,256 | 83 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 83 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 108 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 139 |
| 2016 | £277,800 | £388,645 | 148 |
| 2015 | £272,000 | £384,336 | 127 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 153 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 135 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 113 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 109 |
| 2010 | £205,500 | £322,277 | 118 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 123 |
| 2008 | £209,000 | £342,595 | 123 |
| 2007 | £211,200 | £358,254 | 222 |
| 2006 | £191,000 | £331,552 | 290 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 270 |
| 2004 | £180,800 | £328,368 | 206 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 259 |
| 2002 | £149,500 | £281,283 | 215 |
| 2001 | £128,500 | £247,035 | 219 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 157 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 172 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 163 |
| 1997 | £73,500 | £150,734 | 201 |
| 1996 | £68,200 | £143,831 | 172 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 141 |
In cash terms the typical RG14 2 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 165%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG14 2 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−5.9%). 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) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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 51 RG14 2 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 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 127 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.
The shape of the RG14 2 market
This is a thin market: 51 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.
What homes rent for around RG14 2
The local authority for RG14 2 is West Berkshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £902 a month here against £2,121 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, West Berkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £375,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: RG14 2 (Newbury)
Is RG14 2 (Newbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG14 2 (Newbury)?
Are property prices falling in RG14 2 (Newbury)?
What happens to RG14 2 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
RG14's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 79 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG14 district, not just RG14 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 RG14 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in RG
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the RG area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RG14
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RG14, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG14 1 | £250,000 | 43 |
| RG14 3 | £625,000 | 5 |
| RG14 5 | £316,500 | 46 |
| RG14 6 | £501,500 | 40 |
| RG14 7 | £350,000 | 88 |
Zoom out to the full RG14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RG14 2? 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 RG14 2'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 RG14 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG14 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RG14 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual RG14 2 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.