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Prospect Park market report RG30 2, Reading
The RG30 2 (Prospect Park) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,962 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RG30 2 (Reading) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in RG30 2 (Reading) sold for £276,200 in 2026, the median of 76 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier. The mean was £298,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,950 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,962 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like RG30 2 is a single group of streets within RG30 (Reading), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RG30 2 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 RG30 2 homes really sell for
The RG30 2 median stands at £276,200 for 2026, built from 76 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £298,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
RG30 2 prices by floor area
Per square metre, RG30 2 homes have averaged around £3,950 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG30 2 sits 3% below the national market.
RG30 2's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £276,200 | £276,200 | 76 |
| 2025 | £307,000 | £314,341 | 207 |
| 2024 | £307,000 | £326,404 | 193 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 193 |
| 2022 | £290,500 | £340,644 | 238 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 288 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 140 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 183 |
| 2018 | £258,000 | £343,919 | 223 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 243 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 241 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 292 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 299 |
| 2013 | £173,500 | £249,649 | 247 |
| 2012 | £167,500 | £246,539 | 207 |
| 2011 | £169,500 | £255,880 | 196 |
| 2010 | £166,000 | £260,331 | 202 |
| 2009 | £167,800 | £269,740 | 193 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 211 |
| 2007 | £182,000 | £308,723 | 443 |
| 2006 | £161,700 | £280,691 | 480 |
| 2005 | £157,500 | £280,287 | 461 |
| 2004 | £155,500 | £282,418 | 543 |
| 2003 | £142,000 | £261,598 | 418 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 451 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 505 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 492 |
| 1999 | £82,000 | £163,422 | 547 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 473 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 449 |
| 1996 | £51,000 | £107,557 | 366 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 262 |
In cash terms the typical RG30 2 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £276,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 154%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG30 2 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 1999 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.0%). 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) | −10.0% | −12.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 RG30 2
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 76 RG30 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 474 sales a year before the financial crisis and 181 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.
What kind of market RG30 2 is
Within RG30, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of RG30 2
RG30 2 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.
Set against the £276,200 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 6.9%: 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.
Asked and answered: RG30 2 (Prospect Park)
How much did a house sell for in RG30 2 (Prospect Park)?
Are property prices falling in RG30 2 (Prospect Park)?
Is RG30 2 (Prospect Park) a good place to buy a house?
Will RG30 2 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in RG30 today
Turning to what is actually available: 124 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG30 district, not just RG30 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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.
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. 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.
RG area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RG30
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RG30's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG30 1 | £276,800 | 22 |
| 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.
Selling a home in RG30 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG30 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG30 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG30 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RG30 2.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG30 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RG30 2 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.