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Calcot market report RG31 7, Reading
The RG31 7 (Calcot) 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: 4,499 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG31 7 (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: the typical home in RG31 7 (Reading) sold for £345,000 in 2026, the median of 46 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £351,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,860 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,499 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RG31 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG31 (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 RG31 7 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 RG31 7
In the RG31 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £345,000, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £351,700, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
RG31 7 prices by floor area
Per square metre, RG31 7 homes have averaged around £4,860 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RG31 7 21% above the national figure.
A typical RG31 7 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £345,000 | £345,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £355,000 | £363,489 | 94 |
| 2024 | £327,500 | £348,200 | 84 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 107 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 141 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 183 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 78 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 97 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 125 |
| 2017 | £295,000 | £402,350 | 91 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 103 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 130 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 141 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 115 |
| 2012 | £204,500 | £300,998 | 98 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 87 |
| 2010 | £190,500 | £298,753 | 92 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 95 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 89 |
| 2007 | £209,000 | £354,522 | 187 |
| 2006 | £180,200 | £312,804 | 192 |
| 2005 | £177,000 | £314,989 | 145 |
| 2004 | £166,500 | £302,397 | 192 |
| 2003 | £158,000 | £291,074 | 156 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 221 |
| 2001 | £127,000 | £244,151 | 219 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 162 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 229 |
| 1998 | £86,000 | £173,597 | 225 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 186 |
| 1996 | £65,800 | £138,769 | 230 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical RG31 7 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £345,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG31 7 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, 2024 (−14.9%). 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) | −2.8% | −5.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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 RG31 7
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 46 sales completed in RG31 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 184 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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 RG31 7 market
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG31 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the RG31 district median, RG31 7 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around RG31 7
For renting purposes RG31 7 sits in West Berkshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,290 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £902 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,121 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Berkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £345,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,290 a month (£15,480 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
What people ask about RG31 7 (Calcot)
How much did a house sell for in RG31 7 (Calcot)?
Are property prices falling in RG31 7 (Calcot)?
Is RG31 7 (Calcot) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to RG31 7 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
What you could buy in RG31 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 101 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG31 district, not just RG31 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Calcot, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
"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 RG31 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RG: the cost
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%) | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the RG area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in RG31
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG31, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG31 4 | £395,000 | 15 |
| RG31 5 | £427,500 | 30 |
| RG31 6 | £440,000 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full RG31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG31 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RG31 7? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG31 7'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.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RG31 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RG31 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.