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Caversham market report RG4 5, Reading
The RG4 5 (Caversham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,806 HM Land Registry entries for RG4 5 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in RG4 5 (Reading) sold for £429,600 in 2026, the median of 40 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £436,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,970 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,806 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RG4 5 is one sector of RG4 (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 RG4 5 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 RG4 5
The 2026 median for RG4 5 is £429,600, taken from 40 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £436,400, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
RG4 5 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put RG4 5 at roughly £4,970 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RG4 5 51% above the country at large.
RG4 5'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 | £429,600 | £429,600 | 40 |
| 2025 | £438,500 | £448,986 | 89 |
| 2024 | £426,500 | £453,457 | 78 |
| 2023 | £435,100 | £478,069 | 96 |
| 2022 | £416,200 | £488,042 | 92 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 133 |
| 2020 | £375,000 | £486,570 | 81 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 83 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 90 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 103 |
| 2016 | £355,500 | £497,348 | 104 |
| 2015 | £318,800 | £450,464 | 102 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 135 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 120 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 118 |
| 2011 | £228,500 | £344,947 | 97 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 96 |
| 2009 | £216,500 | £348,026 | 89 |
| 2008 | £227,500 | £372,921 | 75 |
| 2007 | £227,000 | £385,055 | 191 |
| 2006 | £208,000 | £361,061 | 229 |
| 2005 | £199,100 | £354,318 | 144 |
| 2004 | £196,200 | £356,338 | 134 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 150 |
| 2002 | £172,500 | £324,557 | 158 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 185 |
| 2000 | £130,800 | £256,695 | 172 |
| 1999 | £108,000 | £215,238 | 149 |
| 1998 | £93,000 | £187,727 | 135 |
| 1997 | £80,400 | £164,884 | 116 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 135 |
| 1995 | £67,800 | £147,387 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical RG4 5 home went from £67,800 in 1995 to £429,600 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 191%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG4 5 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 2002 (+23.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +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.
Sales activity in RG4 5
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in RG4 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 170 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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.
What homes rent for around RG4 5
The local authority for RG4 5 is Reading, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £429,600 median purchase price, a rent of £1,577 a month (£18,924 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
How RG4 5 trades
This is a thin market: 40 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. Against the RG4 district median, RG4 5 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about RG4 5 (Caversham)
Are property prices falling in RG4 5 (Caversham)?
Is RG4 5 (Caversham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG4 5 (Caversham)?
Where do RG4 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 15% 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.
On the market in RG4 today
Turning to what is actually available: 108 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG4 district, not just RG4 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Emmer Green, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Caversham, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Brook Lea, Caversham, Reading
"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 RG4 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.
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. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in RG4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RG4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG4 6 | £505,000 | 36 |
| RG4 7 | £600,000 | 47 |
| RG4 8 | £405,000 | 71 |
| RG4 9 | £588,800 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full RG4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RG4 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG4 5'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RG4 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG4 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RG4 5 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.