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Finchampstead market report RG40 1, Wokingham
The RG40 1 (Finchampstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,891 registered sales in RG40 1 (Wokingham) 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 RG40 1 (Wokingham) is £435,000, from 57 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £443,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,820 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,891 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG40 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG40 (Wokingham). 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 RG40 1 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 RG40 1 homes really sell for
57 sales were registered in RG40 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £435,000. The mean works out at £443,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in RG40 1
The last five years of sales put RG40 1 at roughly £4,820 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, RG40 1 sits 53% above the national market.
RG40 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £435,000 | £435,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £423,100 | £433,218 | 179 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 189 |
| 2023 | £447,500 | £491,693 | 158 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 243 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 287 |
| 2020 | £408,000 | £529,388 | 191 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 217 |
| 2018 | £378,600 | £504,681 | 239 |
| 2017 | £362,500 | £494,414 | 196 |
| 2016 | £417,800 | £584,506 | 224 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 289 |
| 2014 | £330,000 | £468,163 | 253 |
| 2013 | £282,200 | £406,058 | 160 |
| 2012 | £280,000 | £412,125 | 166 |
| 2011 | £271,200 | £409,408 | 164 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 121 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 122 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 111 |
| 2007 | £286,000 | £485,136 | 206 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 183 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 163 |
| 2004 | £223,000 | £405,012 | 197 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 141 |
| 2002 | £183,500 | £345,254 | 206 |
| 2001 | £174,000 | £334,506 | 187 |
| 2000 | £153,500 | £301,244 | 160 |
| 1999 | £131,000 | £261,076 | 177 |
| 1998 | £108,800 | £219,621 | 172 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 177 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 199 |
| 1995 | £79,000 | £171,734 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical RG40 1 home went from £79,000 in 1995 to £435,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 153%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG40 1 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 (+20.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−14.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.8% | +0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 57 sales completed in RG40 1. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 165 sales a year recently, against 180 a year before 2008. 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.
What kind of market RG40 1 is
This is a thin market: 57 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.
What tenants pay around RG40 1
For renting purposes RG40 1 sits in Wokingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,482 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,065 a month here against £2,329 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wokingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, which against the £435,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: RG40 1 (Finchampstead)
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Where do RG40 1 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in RG40 right now
The live side of the market holds 66 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG40 district, not just RG40 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"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 RG40 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in RG40
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG40, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG40 2 | £364,000 | 28 |
| RG40 3 | £560,000 | 17 |
| RG40 4 | £580,000 | 37 |
| RG40 5 | £478,500 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full RG40 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG40 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RG40 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG40 1'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.
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The live map plots every individual RG40 1 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.