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Hampstead Norreys market report RG18 9, Thatcham
The RG18 9 (Hampstead Norreys) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,585 HM Land Registry entries for RG18 9 (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: 20 registered 2026 sales put the RG18 9 (Thatcham) median at £585,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £652,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,710 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,585 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RG18 9 is one sector of RG18 (Thatcham): 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 RG18 9 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.
RG18 9 sold prices: where the market stands
The RG18 9 median stands at £585,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £652,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
RG18 9 prices by floor area
Per square metre, RG18 9 homes have averaged around £4,710 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RG18 9 105% above the country at large.
A typical RG18 9 home, priced year by year (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 | £585,000 | £585,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £690,000 | £706,500 | 87 |
| 2024 | £650,000 | £691,084 | 61 |
| 2023 | £662,500 | £727,926 | 65 |
| 2022 | £576,600 | £676,129 | 68 |
| 2021 | £575,500 | £728,657 | 97 |
| 2020 | £537,500 | £697,417 | 76 |
| 2019 | £576,500 | £755,654 | 66 |
| 2018 | £542,500 | £723,163 | 68 |
| 2017 | £515,000 | £702,408 | 85 |
| 2016 | £457,500 | £640,047 | 70 |
| 2015 | £417,200 | £589,504 | 74 |
| 2014 | £392,500 | £556,830 | 90 |
| 2013 | £400,000 | £575,560 | 95 |
| 2012 | £440,000 | £647,625 | 65 |
| 2011 | £410,000 | £618,942 | 63 |
| 2010 | £435,000 | £682,192 | 79 |
| 2009 | £415,000 | £667,116 | 73 |
| 2008 | £303,000 | £496,681 | 91 |
| 2007 | £338,500 | £574,190 | 187 |
| 2006 | £339,000 | £588,461 | 137 |
| 2005 | £365,000 | £649,553 | 95 |
| 2004 | £380,000 | £690,154 | 63 |
| 2003 | £299,000 | £550,831 | 81 |
| 2002 | £289,500 | £544,692 | 79 |
| 2001 | £250,000 | £480,612 | 85 |
| 2000 | £240,000 | £471,000 | 62 |
| 1999 | £206,500 | £411,544 | 98 |
| 1998 | £180,000 | £363,343 | 81 |
| 1997 | £140,000 | £287,112 | 92 |
| 1996 | £133,200 | £280,913 | 76 |
| 1995 | £127,000 | £276,078 | 56 |
In cash terms the typical RG18 9 home went from £127,000 in 1995 to £585,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 112%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG18 9 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 2009 (+37.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.2%). 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) | −15.2% | −17.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
RG18 9 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 99 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around RG18 9
RG18 9 falls under West Berkshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £585,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 2.6% 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.
The shape of the RG18 9 market
This is a thin market: 20 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within RG18, this sector trades 54% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about RG18 9 (Hampstead Norreys)
Is RG18 9 (Hampstead Norreys) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG18 9 (Hampstead Norreys)?
Are property prices falling in RG18 9 (Hampstead Norreys)?
Will RG18 9 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
RG18's current homes for sale
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Cold Ash, Thatcham, Berkshire, Thatcham
- Hermitage, Thatcham, Berkshire, Thatcham
- Thatcham, Berkshire, Berkshire
"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 RG18 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in RG
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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.
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.
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 4 | £380,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full RG18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG18 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in RG18 9: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG18 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG18 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG18 9 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 RG18 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG18 9.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG18 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RG18 9 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.
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.