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Hampstead Norreys market report RG18 4, Thatcham
The RG18 4 (Hampstead Norreys) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,274 HM Land Registry entries for RG18 4 (Thatcham), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical RG18 4 (Thatcham) home changed hands for £380,000 in 2026 (median of 25 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £387,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,470 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,274 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like RG18 4 is a single group of streets within RG18 (Thatcham), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RG18 4 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 RG18 4 sells for
25 sales were registered in RG18 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £380,000. The mean works out at £387,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
RG18 4 prices by floor area
A square metre of RG18 4 home has cost about £4,470 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RG18 4 33% above the national figure.
The price of a typical RG18 4 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £401,000 | £410,589 | 68 |
| 2024 | £382,500 | £406,676 | 56 |
| 2023 | £388,000 | £426,317 | 45 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 69 |
| 2021 | £355,000 | £449,476 | 89 |
| 2020 | £315,500 | £409,368 | 55 |
| 2019 | £321,800 | £421,803 | 38 |
| 2018 | £342,000 | £455,892 | 64 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 53 |
| 2016 | £353,000 | £493,850 | 71 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 58 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 86 |
| 2013 | £248,000 | £356,847 | 66 |
| 2012 | £253,500 | £373,120 | 62 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 76 |
| 2010 | £229,200 | £359,445 | 48 |
| 2009 | £238,000 | £382,587 | 77 |
| 2008 | £232,500 | £381,117 | 60 |
| 2007 | £260,000 | £441,032 | 120 |
| 2006 | £232,200 | £403,070 | 152 |
| 2005 | £231,000 | £411,087 | 126 |
| 2004 | £216,000 | £392,298 | 173 |
| 2003 | £215,000 | £396,082 | 145 |
| 2002 | £202,200 | £380,438 | 192 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 206 |
| 2000 | £148,000 | £290,450 | 192 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 205 |
| 1998 | £107,700 | £217,400 | 200 |
| 1997 | £117,500 | £240,969 | 162 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 131 |
| 1995 | £81,000 | £176,082 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical RG18 4 home went from £81,000 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 116%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG18 4 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 1997 (+46.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.2% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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, 25 sales completed in RG18 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 53 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.
The shape of the RG18 4 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG18 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around RG18 4
RG18 4 falls under West Berkshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, which against the £380,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
Common questions on RG18 4 (Hampstead Norreys)
Is RG18 4 (Hampstead Norreys) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG18 4 (Hampstead Norreys)?
Are property prices falling in RG18 4 (Hampstead Norreys)?
Are RG18 4 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in RG18 today
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG18 district, not just RG18 4: 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in RG
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in RG18
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RG18's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG18 0 | £750,000 | 1 |
| RG18 3 | £345,000 | 39 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in RG18 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG18 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG18 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG18 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG18 4.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RG18 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual RG18 4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.