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Caversham market report RG4, Reading
The RG4 (Caversham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 22,968 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG4 (Reading) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for RG4 (Reading) is £487,500, from 226 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £535,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,150 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 22,968 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG4 is the postcode district covering Caversham, Sonning, Sonning Common in Reading. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where RG4 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.
Today's RG4 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for RG4 is £487,500, taken from 226 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £535,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
RG4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG4 costs about £5,150 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG4 sits 71% above the national market.
RG4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £487,500 | £487,500 | 226 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 592 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 536 |
| 2023 | £525,000 | £576,847 | 563 |
| 2022 | £484,000 | £567,545 | 626 |
| 2021 | £471,000 | £596,347 | 802 |
| 2020 | £429,000 | £556,636 | 488 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 548 |
| 2018 | £416,000 | £554,536 | 568 |
| 2017 | £425,000 | £579,657 | 600 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 559 |
| 2015 | £370,000 | £522,810 | 651 |
| 2014 | £325,000 | £461,069 | 768 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 698 |
| 2012 | £282,200 | £415,363 | 644 |
| 2011 | £276,000 | £416,654 | 605 |
| 2010 | £290,000 | £454,795 | 587 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 612 |
| 2008 | £265,000 | £434,391 | 501 |
| 2007 | £267,000 | £452,906 | 890 |
| 2006 | £249,500 | £433,100 | 1,048 |
| 2005 | £233,700 | £415,892 | 835 |
| 2004 | £230,000 | £417,725 | 879 |
| 2003 | £211,800 | £390,187 | 898 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 966 |
| 2001 | £175,500 | £337,390 | 1,001 |
| 2000 | £152,500 | £299,281 | 853 |
| 1999 | £129,000 | £257,090 | 1,038 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 890 |
| 1997 | £103,000 | £211,232 | 898 |
| 1996 | £93,500 | £197,187 | 913 |
| 1995 | £88,000 | £191,298 | 685 |
In cash terms the typical RG4 home went from £88,000 in 1995 to £487,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 155%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG4 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 (+18.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−9.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £785,000 against £244,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, RG4
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £785,000 | 56 | 7,169 |
| Semi-detached | £550,500 | 62 | 7,005 |
| Terraced | £413,500 | 70 | 5,324 |
| Flats | £244,000 | 38 | 3,470 |
What RG4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.5% | −2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
RG4 recorded 480 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 921 sales a year before the financial crisis and 509 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of RG4
The local authority for RG4 is Reading, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,577 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,118 a month here against £2,362 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Reading
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £487,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,577 a month (£18,924 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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 trades
Among the 30 measurable districts of its area, RG4 ranks 7 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
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What happens to RG4 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in RG4 right now
Everything above is what homes in RG4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 108 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the RG4 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in RG
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
RG4 ranks 16 of 30 in the RG area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, RG area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside RG4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| RG4 9 | £588,800 | 32 |
How RG4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RG9 | £695,000 | -2% |
| RG29 | £617,000 | +23% |
| RG25 | £610,000 | +26% |
| RG10 | £600,000 | +5% |
| RG20 | £542,500 | +6% |
| RG8 | £500,000 | -13% |
| RG4 (this report) | £487,500 | +4% |
| RG7 | £465,500 | +1% |
| RG42 | £465,000 | +3% |
| RG45 | £460,000 | -8% |
| RG40 | £455,000 | +1% |
| RG5 | £445,000 | +7% |
| RG27 | £445,000 | -1% |
| RG6 | £442,500 | +5% |
| RG41 | £442,500 | -5% |
| RG28 | £435,000 | +16% |
| RG31 | £403,300 | +12% |
| RG26 | £390,000 | +11% |
| RG23 | £387,500 | +3% |
| RG2 | £385,000 | +3% |
| RG18 | £380,000 | +0% |
| RG17 | £375,000 | -3% |
| RG12 | £370,000 | +14% |
| RG22 | £370,000 | +19% |
Before you sell in RG4: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG4'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG4.
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The live map plots every individual RG4 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.