Local market reports › RG area › RG4 › RG4 9
Caversham market report RG4 9, Reading
The RG4 9 (Caversham) 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: 2,794 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG4 9 (Reading) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in RG4 9 (Reading) sold for £588,800 in 2026, the median of 32 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £663,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,500 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,794 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RG4 9 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 9 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 9
The RG4 9 median stands at £588,800 for 2026, built from 32 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £663,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in RG4 9
By floor space, homes in RG4 9 have sold for about £5,500 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RG4 9 107% above the national figure.
RG4 9's median sold price, 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 | £588,800 | £588,800 | 32 |
| 2025 | £580,000 | £593,870 | 85 |
| 2024 | £570,000 | £606,027 | 88 |
| 2023 | £650,000 | £714,191 | 98 |
| 2022 | £662,500 | £776,857 | 92 |
| 2021 | £590,000 | £747,016 | 121 |
| 2020 | £525,000 | £681,198 | 95 |
| 2019 | £530,000 | £694,703 | 87 |
| 2018 | £490,000 | £653,179 | 91 |
| 2017 | £505,500 | £689,451 | 78 |
| 2016 | £486,000 | £679,919 | 81 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 91 |
| 2014 | £445,500 | £632,020 | 94 |
| 2013 | £376,000 | £541,026 | 86 |
| 2012 | £367,000 | £540,178 | 69 |
| 2011 | £340,000 | £513,269 | 65 |
| 2010 | £385,000 | £603,779 | 63 |
| 2009 | £330,000 | £530,478 | 55 |
| 2008 | £343,200 | £562,577 | 46 |
| 2007 | £380,000 | £644,586 | 75 |
| 2006 | £332,500 | £577,178 | 109 |
| 2005 | £287,500 | £511,634 | 86 |
| 2004 | £310,000 | £563,021 | 92 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 88 |
| 2002 | £253,800 | £477,523 | 94 |
| 2001 | £227,500 | £437,357 | 116 |
| 2000 | £212,500 | £417,031 | 94 |
| 1999 | £174,200 | £347,172 | 110 |
| 1998 | £149,000 | £300,767 | 100 |
| 1997 | £140,000 | £287,112 | 100 |
| 1996 | £130,000 | £274,164 | 117 |
| 1995 | £104,000 | £226,080 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical RG4 9 home went from £104,000 in 1995 to £588,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 160%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG4 9 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 1996 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−12.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG4 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.5% | −0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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, 32 sales completed in RG4 9. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 79 sales a year recently, against 94 a year before 2008. 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.
How RG4 9 trades
This is a thin market: 32 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the RG4 district median, RG4 9 sits 21% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around RG4 9
For renting purposes RG4 9 sits in South Oxfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,381 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,025 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,292 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £588,800 median sold price, £1,381 a month is £16,572 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: 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.
RG4 9 (Caversham): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in RG4 9 (Caversham)?
Is RG4 9 (Caversham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG4 9 (Caversham)?
The questions people bring to RG4 9 (Caversham)
To the person who searched house valuation in caversham
: 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 £588,800 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Where do RG4 9 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
RG4's current homes for sale
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
21% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Emmer Green, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Caversham, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Brook Lea, Caversham, 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 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.
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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, RG area districts
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 7 | £600,000 | 47 |
| RG4 8 | £405,000 | 71 |
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 9: 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 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG4 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG4 9 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 9.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RG4 9. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RG4 9 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.