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Hampstead Norreys market report RG18 3, Thatcham
The RG18 3 (Hampstead Norreys) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,653 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG18 3 (Thatcham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in RG18 3 (Thatcham) sold for £345,000 in 2026, the median of 39 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £360,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,250 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,653 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RG18 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG18 (Thatcham). 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 RG18 3 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 RG18 3 homes really sell for
39 sales were registered in RG18 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £345,000. The mean works out at £360,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in RG18 3
By floor space, homes in RG18 3 have sold for about £4,250 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG18 3 trades 21% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RG18 3 home, 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 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £366,200 | £374,957 | 98 |
| 2024 | £363,500 | £386,475 | 82 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 82 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 97 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 117 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 109 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 106 |
| 2018 | £297,500 | £396,573 | 116 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 112 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 95 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 101 |
| 2014 | £241,000 | £341,901 | 124 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 123 |
| 2012 | £221,200 | £325,579 | 82 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 79 |
| 2010 | £213,000 | £334,039 | 79 |
| 2009 | £196,200 | £315,393 | 71 |
| 2008 | £203,200 | £333,088 | 84 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 123 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 158 |
| 2005 | £192,500 | £342,572 | 122 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 153 |
| 2003 | £176,500 | £325,156 | 149 |
| 2002 | £156,800 | £295,018 | 164 |
| 2001 | £139,000 | £267,220 | 157 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 126 |
| 1999 | £97,200 | £193,715 | 148 |
| 1998 | £88,200 | £178,038 | 154 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 149 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 138 |
| 1995 | £65,000 | £141,300 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical RG18 3 home went from £65,000 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 144%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG18 3 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 (+23.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
RG18 3 recorded 39 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 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 RG18 3
For renting purposes RG18 3 sits in West Berkshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £902 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,121 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Berkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £345,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
How RG18 3 trades
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG18 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within RG18, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on RG18 3 (Hampstead Norreys)
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What happens to RG18 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in RG18 now
The live side of the market holds 22 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG18 district, not just RG18 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Cold Ash, Thatcham, Berkshire, Thatcham
- Hermitage, Thatcham, Berkshire, Thatcham
- Thatcham, Berkshire, Berkshire
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every RG18 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
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%) | — |
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in RG18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RG18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG18 0 | £750,000 | 1 |
| RG18 4 | £380,000 | 25 |
| RG18 9 | £585,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full RG18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RG18 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG18 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG18 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG18 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG18 3.
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The live map plots every individual RG18 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.