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Prospect Park market report RG30 4, Reading
The standing RG30 4 (Prospect Park) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,800 HM Land Registry entries for RG30 4 (Reading), 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: the 2026 median for RG30 4 (Reading) is £410,000, from 43 registered sales, up 26% on five years earlier; the mean is £401,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,390 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,800 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG30 4 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 4 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.
The going rate for a home in RG30 4
The RG30 4 median stands at £410,000 for 2026, built from 43 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £401,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in RG30 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of RG30 4 sales average about £4,390 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG30 4 trades 44% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RG30 4 home, 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 155 |
| 2024 | £377,500 | £401,360 | 118 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 127 |
| 2022 | £352,500 | £413,346 | 122 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 198 |
| 2020 | £305,000 | £395,744 | 122 |
| 2019 | £306,000 | £401,093 | 116 |
| 2018 | £313,500 | £417,901 | 124 |
| 2017 | £305,000 | £415,989 | 141 |
| 2016 | £295,000 | £412,708 | 178 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 206 |
| 2014 | £237,000 | £336,226 | 195 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 199 |
| 2012 | £198,500 | £292,167 | 158 |
| 2011 | £194,900 | £294,224 | 129 |
| 2010 | £210,500 | £330,118 | 111 |
| 2009 | £187,000 | £300,604 | 115 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 89 |
| 2007 | £222,500 | £377,422 | 187 |
| 2006 | £189,000 | £328,080 | 191 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 148 |
| 2004 | £173,000 | £314,202 | 165 |
| 2003 | £156,000 | £287,390 | 155 |
| 2002 | £149,500 | £281,283 | 208 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 180 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 143 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 181 |
| 1998 | £81,000 | £163,504 | 182 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 135 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 159 |
| 1995 | £61,800 | £134,344 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical RG30 4 home went from £61,800 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 205%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the RG30 4 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.1%). 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) | +12.3% | +9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | −0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in RG30 4
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 43 RG30 4 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 172 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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.
How RG30 4 trades
This is a thin market: 43 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. Within RG30, this sector trades 21% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of RG30 4
The local authority for RG30 4 is Reading, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,577 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £410,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,577 a month (£18,924 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
Common questions on RG30 4 (Prospect Park)
Is RG30 4 (Prospect Park) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG30 4 (Prospect Park)?
Are property prices falling in RG30 4 (Prospect Park)?
Are RG30 4 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 26% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
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 4: 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 →
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RG area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
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 RG30
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG30, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG30 1 | £276,800 | 22 |
| RG30 2 | £276,200 | 76 |
| RG30 3 | £377,000 | 31 |
| 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.
Before you sell in RG30 4: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG30 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working RG30 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG30 4.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual RG30 4 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.