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Finchampstead market report RG40 2, Wokingham
The standing RG40 2 (Finchampstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,599 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RG40 2 (Wokingham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical RG40 2 (Wokingham) home changed hands for £364,000 in 2026 (median of 28 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £455,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,220 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,599 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RG40 2 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 2 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 RG40 2
Across 28 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG40 2 home went for £364,000. The mean is £455,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
RG40 2 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put RG40 2 at roughly £5,220 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 2 sits 28% above the national market.
A typical RG40 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £364,000 | £364,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £430,000 | £440,283 | 96 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 115 |
| 2023 | £383,500 | £421,373 | 110 |
| 2022 | £379,500 | £445,007 | 138 |
| 2021 | £390,000 | £493,790 | 167 |
| 2020 | £385,000 | £499,545 | 72 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 84 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 81 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 127 |
| 2016 | £381,500 | £533,722 | 102 |
| 2015 | £307,000 | £433,791 | 115 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 142 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 129 |
| 2012 | £257,500 | £379,008 | 68 |
| 2011 | £270,000 | £407,596 | 77 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 68 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 94 |
| 2008 | £247,000 | £404,885 | 80 |
| 2007 | £275,000 | £466,477 | 147 |
| 2006 | £243,500 | £422,685 | 146 |
| 2005 | £222,200 | £395,426 | 114 |
| 2004 | £205,000 | £372,320 | 146 |
| 2003 | £215,000 | £396,082 | 125 |
| 2002 | £205,000 | £385,706 | 153 |
| 2001 | £167,500 | £322,010 | 138 |
| 2000 | £145,000 | £284,563 | 123 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 147 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 118 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 130 |
| 1996 | £90,000 | £189,806 | 123 |
| 1995 | £73,900 | £160,647 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical RG40 2 home went from £73,900 in 1995 to £364,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 127%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG40 2 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 (+26.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.3%). 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) | −15.3% | −17.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −5.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.5% | −3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in RG40 2
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, 28 sales completed in RG40 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 137 sales a year before the financial crisis and 97 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.
Rents around RG40 2
For renting purposes RG40 2 sits in Wokingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,482 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,065 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,329, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Wokingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £364,000 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
Reading the RG40 2 market
This is a thin market: 28 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 RG40 district median, RG40 2 sits 20% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: RG40 2 (Finchampstead)
Is RG40 2 (Finchampstead) a good place to buy a house?
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Are property prices falling in RG40 2 (Finchampstead)?
What happens to RG40 2 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% 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.
RG40's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 66 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG40 district, not just RG40 2: 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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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 RG40 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RG prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the RG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the RG area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in RG40
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RG40's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG40 1 | £435,000 | 57 |
| 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.
Selling a home in RG40 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG40 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG40 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG40 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working RG40 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG40 2.
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See every individual RG40 2 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.
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.