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Prospect Park market report RG30, Reading
The RG30 (Prospect Park) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 24,718 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG30 (Reading) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for RG30 (Reading) is £340,200, from 205 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £346,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 24,718 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district RG30 covering Tilehurst (east), Prospect Park, Burghfield village sits in Reading. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where RG30 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 buyers actually paid in RG30
In the RG30 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £340,200, from 205 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £346,200, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
RG30 prices by floor area
Per square metre, RG30 homes have averaged around £4,170 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 sits 19% above the national market.
RG30's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,200 | £340,200 | 205 |
| 2025 | £338,800 | £346,902 | 578 |
| 2024 | £327,200 | £347,881 | 524 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 529 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 683 |
| 2021 | £298,000 | £377,306 | 863 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 451 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 535 |
| 2018 | £280,000 | £373,245 | 649 |
| 2017 | £285,000 | £388,711 | 648 |
| 2016 | £279,500 | £391,023 | 676 |
| 2015 | £243,600 | £344,207 | 790 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 754 |
| 2013 | £183,000 | £263,319 | 828 |
| 2012 | £180,200 | £265,232 | 646 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 551 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 506 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 531 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 528 |
| 2007 | £191,800 | £325,346 | 1,046 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 1,098 |
| 2005 | £163,000 | £290,074 | 930 |
| 2004 | £158,000 | £286,959 | 1,136 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 937 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 1,090 |
| 2001 | £118,000 | £226,849 | 1,197 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 1,018 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 1,172 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 1,051 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 1,032 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 890 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 646 |
In cash terms the typical RG30 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £340,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 187%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG30 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 (−8.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG30 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.4% | −1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £500,000 against £215,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, RG30
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £500,000 | 13 | 1,694 |
| Semi-detached | £392,500 | 66 | 6,878 |
| Terraced | £340,200 | 73 | 10,414 |
| Flats | £215,000 | 53 | 5,732 |
Sales activity in RG30
Sales per year, counted
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 455 RG30 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 1,057 sales a year before the financial crisis and 504 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the RG30 market
In its area's price order RG30 comes 27 of 30, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What homes rent for around RG30
RG30 falls under Reading, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £340,200 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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 (Prospect Park)
Is RG30 (Prospect Park) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG30 (Prospect Park)?
Are property prices falling in RG30 (Prospect Park)?
Will RG30 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
What you could buy in RG30 now
Everything above is what homes in RG30 sold for. The live side of the market holds 124 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the RG30 median sold price.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in RG: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
RG30 ranks 5 of 30 in the RG area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside RG30, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| RG30 6 | £350,000 | 33 |
How RG30 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the RG area, and RG30 itself, which ranks 27 of 30 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RG9 | £695,000 | -2% |
| RG29 | £617,000 | +23% |
| RG25 | £610,000 | +26% |
| RG10 | £600,000 | +5% |
| RG20 | £542,500 | +6% |
| RG8 | £500,000 | -13% |
| RG4 | £487,500 | +4% |
| RG7 | £465,500 | +1% |
| RG42 | £465,000 | +3% |
| RG45 | £460,000 | -8% |
| RG40 | £455,000 | +1% |
| RG5 | £445,000 | +7% |
| RG27 | £445,000 | -1% |
| RG6 | £442,500 | +5% |
| RG41 | £442,500 | -5% |
| RG28 | £435,000 | +16% |
| RG31 | £403,300 | +12% |
| RG26 | £390,000 | +11% |
| RG23 | £387,500 | +3% |
| RG2 | £385,000 | +3% |
| RG18 | £380,000 | +0% |
| RG17 | £375,000 | -3% |
| RG12 | £370,000 | +14% |
| RG30 (this report) | £340,200 | +14% |
Selling in RG30? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG30, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG30 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG30 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual RG30 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.