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Caversham market report RG4 8, Reading
The RG4 8 (Caversham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 7,143 HM Land Registry entries for RG4 8 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for RG4 8 (Reading) is £405,000, from 71 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £460,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,020 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,143 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG4 8 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 8 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 a home in RG4 8 sells for
The 2026 median for RG4 8 is £405,000, taken from 71 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £460,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
RG4 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of RG4 8 home has cost about £5,020 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG4 8 sits 42% above the national market.
A typical RG4 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £430,500 | £440,795 | 193 |
| 2024 | £417,500 | £443,888 | 160 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 168 |
| 2022 | £416,500 | £488,394 | 202 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 224 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 142 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 157 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 179 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 166 |
| 2016 | £369,100 | £516,375 | 146 |
| 2015 | £320,000 | £452,160 | 200 |
| 2014 | £280,000 | £397,229 | 257 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 225 |
| 2012 | £249,500 | £367,233 | 216 |
| 2011 | £246,800 | £372,573 | 196 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 182 |
| 2009 | £247,500 | £397,858 | 192 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 154 |
| 2007 | £243,500 | £413,044 | 274 |
| 2006 | £227,500 | £394,911 | 319 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 290 |
| 2004 | £199,500 | £362,331 | 256 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 294 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 283 |
| 2001 | £160,000 | £307,592 | 280 |
| 2000 | £147,800 | £290,058 | 282 |
| 1999 | £116,800 | £232,776 | 384 |
| 1998 | £94,000 | £189,746 | 305 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 265 |
| 1996 | £82,000 | £172,934 | 250 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 231 |
In cash terms the typical RG4 8 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 133%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 24% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG4 8 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 (+26.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−6.1%). 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) | −5.9% | −8.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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 71 RG4 8 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 285 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 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 8 market
Within RG4, this sector trades 17% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What homes rent for around RG4 8
For renting purposes RG4 8 sits in Reading. The ONS average private rent there is £1,577 a month (May 2026). 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 £405,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,577 a month (£18,924 a year) works out at a 4.7% 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 RG4 8 (Caversham)
Are property prices falling in RG4 8 (Caversham)?
Is RG4 8 (Caversham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG4 8 (Caversham)?
What happens to RG4 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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
The live side of the market holds 108 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG4 district, not just RG4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RG: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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
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 6 | £505,000 | 36 |
| RG4 7 | £600,000 | 47 |
| 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 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG4 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG4 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG4 8 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 8.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every RG4 8 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.