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Caversham market report RG4 7, Reading
The standing RG4 7 (Caversham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,483 registered sales in RG4 7 (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 2026 median for RG4 7 (Reading) is £600,000, from 47 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £591,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,410 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,483 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG4 7 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 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.
RG4 7 sold prices: where the market stands
47 sales were registered in RG4 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £600,000. The mean works out at £591,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in RG4 7
The last five years of sales put RG4 7 at roughly £5,410 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG4 7 sits 111% above the national market.
RG4 7'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 | £600,000 | £600,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £625,000 | £639,946 | 135 |
| 2024 | £620,000 | £659,187 | 122 |
| 2023 | £669,000 | £735,068 | 127 |
| 2022 | £655,000 | £768,062 | 142 |
| 2021 | £627,500 | £794,496 | 200 |
| 2020 | £535,000 | £694,174 | 96 |
| 2019 | £535,000 | £701,257 | 148 |
| 2018 | £505,000 | £673,175 | 134 |
| 2017 | £555,000 | £756,964 | 138 |
| 2016 | £515,000 | £720,490 | 127 |
| 2015 | £482,800 | £682,196 | 166 |
| 2014 | £430,000 | £610,030 | 163 |
| 2013 | £400,000 | £575,560 | 168 |
| 2012 | £400,000 | £588,750 | 154 |
| 2011 | £360,200 | £543,763 | 158 |
| 2010 | £375,000 | £588,097 | 160 |
| 2009 | £310,000 | £498,328 | 175 |
| 2008 | £342,000 | £560,610 | 135 |
| 2007 | £365,000 | £619,142 | 200 |
| 2006 | £323,800 | £562,075 | 224 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 193 |
| 2004 | £303,800 | £551,760 | 195 |
| 2003 | £267,500 | £492,800 | 227 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 243 |
| 2001 | £240,000 | £461,388 | 270 |
| 2000 | £200,000 | £392,500 | 186 |
| 1999 | £162,500 | £323,854 | 227 |
| 1998 | £155,000 | £312,879 | 193 |
| 1997 | £127,200 | £260,862 | 240 |
| 1996 | £107,000 | £225,658 | 233 |
| 1995 | £105,000 | £228,254 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical RG4 7 home went from £105,000 in 1995 to £600,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 163%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG4 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 (+23.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.4%). 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) | −4.0% | −6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 RG4 7
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.
RG4 7 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 217 sales a year before the financial crisis and 115 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.
Rents around RG4 7
The local authority for RG4 7 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.
Set against the £600,000 median sold price, £1,577 a month is £18,924 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: 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.
What kind of market RG4 7 is
This is a thin market: 47 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 7 sits 23% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on RG4 7 (Caversham)
Is RG4 7 (Caversham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG4 7 (Caversham)?
Are property prices falling in RG4 7 (Caversham)?
Are RG4 7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% 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 7: 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
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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RG prices by size
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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 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 6 | £505,000 | 36 |
| 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.
Before you sell in RG4 7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG4 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG4 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG4 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RG4 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG4 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual RG4 7 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.
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.