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Hampstead Norreys market report RG18, Thatcham
The RG18 (Hampstead Norreys) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 9,913 HM Land Registry entries for RG18 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in RG18 (Thatcham) sold for £380,000 in 2026, the median of 85 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £441,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,913 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district RG18 covering Hampstead Norreys, Hermitage, Thatcham (north) sits in Thatcham. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where RG18 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 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 85 registered 2026 sales in RG18 and the middle price, the median, is £380,000. The mean lands at £441,700, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in RG18
Per square metre, RG18 homes have averaged around £4,460 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RG18 runs 33% above it.
A typical RG18 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 85 |
| 2025 | £440,400 | £450,931 | 264 |
| 2024 | £402,500 | £427,940 | 207 |
| 2023 | £405,000 | £444,996 | 197 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 247 |
| 2021 | £380,200 | £481,382 | 319 |
| 2020 | £365,000 | £473,595 | 244 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 222 |
| 2018 | £343,000 | £457,225 | 255 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 254 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 249 |
| 2015 | £308,500 | £435,911 | 244 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 315 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 292 |
| 2012 | £261,000 | £384,159 | 220 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 232 |
| 2010 | £246,200 | £386,105 | 218 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 229 |
| 2008 | £237,500 | £389,313 | 243 |
| 2007 | £265,000 | £449,514 | 445 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 467 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 353 |
| 2004 | £208,000 | £377,769 | 405 |
| 2003 | £202,000 | £372,133 | 387 |
| 2002 | £192,500 | £362,187 | 459 |
| 2001 | £170,000 | £326,816 | 463 |
| 2000 | £145,000 | £284,563 | 399 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 470 |
| 1998 | £109,000 | £220,024 | 461 |
| 1997 | £99,000 | £203,029 | 421 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 359 |
| 1995 | £79,200 | £172,169 | 288 |
In cash terms the typical RG18 home went from £79,200 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 121%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG18 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 (+25.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £590,000 against £207,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, RG18
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 | £590,000 | 25 | 4,549 |
| Semi-detached | £377,500 | 32 | 3,059 |
| Terraced | £315,000 | 17 | 1,673 |
| Flats | £207,000 | 11 | 632 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.7% | −15.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in RG18
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
RG18 recorded 195 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 422 sales a year before the financial crisis and 200 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 rental side of RG18
RG18 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.
Against the £380,000 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: RG18 (Hampstead Norreys)
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Will RG18 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
RG18's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in RG18 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the RG18 median sold price.
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
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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RG prices by size
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%) | — |
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
RG18 ranks 22 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.
Winners and losers across the RG area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside RG18, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG18 0 | £750,000 | 1 |
| RG18 3 | £345,000 | 39 |
| RG18 4 | £380,000 | 25 |
| RG18 9 | £585,000 | 20 |
How RG18 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RG area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £380,000 | +0% |
| RG17 | £375,000 | -3% |
| RG12 | £370,000 | +14% |
| RG22 | £370,000 | +19% |
Selling a home in RG18? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG18, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG18's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG18 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.