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Prospect Park market report RG30 6, Reading
The RG30 6 (Prospect Park) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,645 registered sales in RG30 6 (Reading) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical RG30 6 (Reading) home changed hands for £350,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £358,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,560 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,645 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like RG30 6 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 6 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 6 sells for
33 sales were registered in RG30 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £350,000. The mean works out at £358,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
RG30 6 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put RG30 6 at roughly £4,560 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG30 6 trades 23% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RG30 6 home, 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 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £345,000 | £353,250 | 80 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 73 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 81 |
| 2022 | £338,000 | £396,344 | 80 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 115 |
| 2020 | £291,000 | £377,579 | 61 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 74 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 81 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 93 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 99 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 102 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 100 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 111 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 84 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 77 |
| 2010 | £178,200 | £279,463 | 60 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 79 |
| 2008 | £196,500 | £322,105 | 62 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 150 |
| 2006 | £167,500 | £290,759 | 179 |
| 2005 | £161,000 | £286,515 | 125 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 161 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 173 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 164 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 191 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 167 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 183 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 165 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 183 |
| 1996 | £57,700 | £121,687 | 148 |
| 1995 | £55,400 | £120,431 | 111 |
In cash terms the typical RG30 6 home went from £55,400 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 191%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG30 6 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 (+23.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.0%). 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) | +1.4% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in RG30 6
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 33 RG30 6 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 164 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.
The shape of the RG30 6 market
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG30 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around RG30 6
RG30 6 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.
£1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, which against the £350,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: RG30 6 (Prospect Park)
How much did a house sell for in RG30 6 (Prospect Park)?
Are property prices falling in RG30 6 (Prospect Park)?
Is RG30 6 (Prospect Park) a good place to buy a house?
Where do RG30 6 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in RG30 today
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every RG30 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in RG
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, from the Land Registry record. 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
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 2 | £276,200 | 76 |
| RG30 3 | £377,000 | 31 |
| RG30 4 | £410,000 | 43 |
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 6? 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 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG30 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG30 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG30 6.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG30 6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RG30 6 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.
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.