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Caversham market report RG4 6, Reading
The RG4 6 (Caversham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,740 registered sales in RG4 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in RG4 6 (Reading) came in at £505,000, out of 36 registered, up 23% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £604,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,850 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,740 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
RG4 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG4 (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 RG4 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.
The going rate for a home in RG4 6
36 sales were registered in RG4 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £505,000. The mean works out at £604,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in RG4 6
The last five years of sales put RG4 6 at roughly £4,850 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RG4 6 runs 77% above it.
The price of a typical RG4 6 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 | £505,000 | £505,000 | 36 |
| 2025 | £492,500 | £504,277 | 90 |
| 2024 | £482,500 | £512,997 | 88 |
| 2023 | £451,000 | £495,539 | 74 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 98 |
| 2021 | £411,000 | £520,379 | 124 |
| 2020 | £387,500 | £502,789 | 74 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 73 |
| 2018 | £393,800 | £524,943 | 74 |
| 2017 | £425,000 | £579,657 | 115 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 101 |
| 2015 | £343,000 | £484,659 | 92 |
| 2014 | £355,000 | £503,630 | 119 |
| 2013 | £287,500 | £413,684 | 99 |
| 2012 | £262,000 | £385,631 | 87 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 89 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 86 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 101 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 91 |
| 2007 | £282,800 | £479,708 | 150 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 167 |
| 2005 | £231,000 | £411,087 | 120 |
| 2004 | £204,000 | £370,504 | 202 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 139 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 188 |
| 2001 | £158,800 | £305,285 | 150 |
| 2000 | £137,000 | £268,863 | 119 |
| 1999 | £125,500 | £250,115 | 168 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 157 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 177 |
| 1996 | £83,800 | £176,730 | 178 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 114 |
In cash terms the typical RG4 6 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £505,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 223%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG4 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 1999 (+32.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.6%). 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) | +2.5% | +0.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 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.
Transaction volumes
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 36 RG4 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 154 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the RG4 6 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG4 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around RG4 6
The local authority for RG4 6 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.
Set against the £505,000 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Common questions on RG4 6 (Caversham)
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Searches that land here, answered
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: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £505,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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Are RG4 6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
RG4's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 108 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG4 district, not just RG4 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in RG
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%) | — |
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. 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.
RG area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 5 | £429,600 | 40 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in RG4 6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG4 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG4 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG4 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 RG4 6.
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Two maps carry on from here: every RG4 6 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.