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Prospect Park market report RG30 1, Reading
The standing RG30 1 (Prospect Park) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,328 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG30 1 (Reading) 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 2026 median for RG30 1 (Reading) is £276,800, from 22 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £270,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,960 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,328 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG30 1 is one sector of RG30 (Reading): 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 RG30 1 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 RG30 1 sells for
Across 22 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG30 1 home went for £276,800. The mean is £270,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in RG30 1
The last five years of sales put RG30 1 at roughly £3,960 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 RG30 1 3% below the country at large.
A typical RG30 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £276,800 | £276,800 | 22 |
| 2025 | £277,500 | £284,136 | 56 |
| 2024 | £310,500 | £330,125 | 58 |
| 2023 | £283,000 | £310,948 | 59 |
| 2022 | £311,000 | £364,683 | 161 |
| 2021 | £268,000 | £339,323 | 133 |
| 2020 | £283,500 | £367,847 | 62 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 75 |
| 2018 | £245,000 | £326,590 | 74 |
| 2017 | £268,000 | £365,525 | 75 |
| 2016 | £270,000 | £377,733 | 79 |
| 2015 | £229,500 | £324,284 | 100 |
| 2014 | £200,500 | £284,444 | 89 |
| 2013 | £173,000 | £248,930 | 165 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 91 |
| 2011 | £153,000 | £230,971 | 64 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 77 |
| 2009 | £172,000 | £276,491 | 83 |
| 2008 | £197,000 | £322,925 | 101 |
| 2007 | £177,000 | £300,241 | 149 |
| 2006 | £154,200 | £267,671 | 131 |
| 2005 | £157,500 | £280,287 | 105 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 143 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 107 |
| 2002 | £128,000 | £240,831 | 144 |
| 2001 | £119,200 | £229,156 | 193 |
| 2000 | £98,600 | £193,503 | 132 |
| 1999 | £78,500 | £156,446 | 143 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 130 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 153 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 105 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical RG30 1 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £276,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 163%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG30 1 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 (+25.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.0%). 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) | −0.3% | −2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 22 sales completed in RG30 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 138 sales a year before the financial crisis and 71 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 RG30 1 market
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG30 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within RG30, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around RG30 1
RG30 1 falls under Reading, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,577 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,118 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,362 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Reading
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £276,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,577 a month (£18,924 a year) works out at a 6.8% 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.
Common questions on RG30 1 (Prospect Park)
How much did a house sell for in RG30 1 (Prospect Park)?
Are property prices falling in RG30 1 (Prospect Park)?
Is RG30 1 (Prospect Park) a good place to buy a house?
Where do RG30 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in RG30 right now
The live side of the market holds 124 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG30 district, not just RG30 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 RG30 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RG: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, 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%) | — |
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.
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 RG30
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RG30, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG30 2 | £276,200 | 76 |
| RG30 3 | £377,000 | 31 |
| RG30 4 | £410,000 | 43 |
| RG30 6 | £350,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full RG30 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG30 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RG30 1? 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 RG30 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG30 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG30 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual RG30 1 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.
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.