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Prospect Park market report RG30 3, Reading
The RG30 3 (Prospect Park) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,983 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG30 3 (Reading) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 31 registered 2026 sales put the RG30 3 (Reading) median at £377,000, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £425,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,210 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,983 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RG30 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG30 (Reading). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where RG30 3 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.
RG30 3 sold prices: where the market stands
In the RG30 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £377,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £425,700, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in RG30 3
A square metre of RG30 3 home has cost about £4,210 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 RG30 3 32% above the national figure.
RG30 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £377,000 | £377,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £387,500 | £396,766 | 80 |
| 2024 | £382,500 | £406,676 | 82 |
| 2023 | £365,000 | £401,046 | 69 |
| 2022 | £363,500 | £426,245 | 82 |
| 2021 | £330,000 | £417,823 | 129 |
| 2020 | £321,800 | £417,542 | 66 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 87 |
| 2018 | £289,500 | £385,909 | 147 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 96 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 79 |
| 2015 | £295,500 | £417,542 | 90 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 71 |
| 2013 | £224,500 | £323,033 | 106 |
| 2012 | £198,700 | £292,462 | 106 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 85 |
| 2010 | £191,500 | £300,321 | 56 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 61 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 65 |
| 2007 | £231,000 | £391,840 | 117 |
| 2006 | £194,000 | £336,759 | 117 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 91 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 124 |
| 2003 | £171,500 | £315,945 | 84 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 123 |
| 2001 | £136,500 | £262,414 | 128 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 84 |
| 1999 | £98,700 | £196,704 | 118 |
| 1998 | £87,000 | £175,616 | 101 |
| 1997 | £80,500 | £165,089 | 112 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 112 |
| 1995 | £63,500 | £138,039 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical RG30 3 home went from £63,500 in 1995 to £377,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 173%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG30 3 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 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.0%). 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) | −2.7% | −5.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in RG30 3
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.
The register shows 31 RG30 3 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 109 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
Reading the RG30 3 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG30 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within RG30, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around RG30 3
For renting purposes RG30 3 sits in Reading. The ONS average private rent there is £1,577 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,118 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,362, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Reading
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £377,000 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
Common questions on RG30 3 (Prospect Park)
How much did a house sell for in RG30 3 (Prospect Park)?
Are property prices falling in RG30 3 (Prospect Park)?
Is RG30 3 (Prospect Park) a good place to buy a house?
Are RG30 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in RG30 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 RG30 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
RG area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £276,800 | 22 |
| RG30 2 | £276,200 | 76 |
| 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 3? 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 RG30 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG30 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG30 3 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 3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.