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Finchampstead market report RG40 4, Wokingham
The RG40 4 (Finchampstead) 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: 4,318 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG40 4 (Wokingham) 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 2026 median for RG40 4 (Wokingham) is £580,000, from 37 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier; the mean is £568,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,060 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,318 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG40 4 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 4 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.
RG40 4 sold prices: where the market stands
37 sales were registered in RG40 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £580,000. The mean works out at £568,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in RG40 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of RG40 4 sales average about £5,060 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RG40 4 runs 104% above it.
A typical RG40 4 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 | £580,000 | £580,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £632,800 | £647,932 | 174 |
| 2024 | £535,000 | £568,815 | 188 |
| 2023 | £506,200 | £556,190 | 144 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 131 |
| 2021 | £505,000 | £639,395 | 158 |
| 2020 | £494,800 | £642,013 | 94 |
| 2019 | £510,000 | £668,488 | 83 |
| 2018 | £480,000 | £639,849 | 77 |
| 2017 | £475,000 | £647,852 | 87 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 109 |
| 2015 | £442,500 | £625,253 | 77 |
| 2014 | £416,000 | £590,169 | 118 |
| 2013 | £350,000 | £503,615 | 107 |
| 2012 | £344,000 | £506,325 | 86 |
| 2011 | £338,800 | £511,458 | 114 |
| 2010 | £360,000 | £564,573 | 98 |
| 2009 | £317,500 | £510,384 | 90 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 71 |
| 2007 | £325,000 | £551,291 | 157 |
| 2006 | £307,000 | £532,913 | 163 |
| 2005 | £295,000 | £524,981 | 163 |
| 2004 | £296,500 | £538,502 | 174 |
| 2003 | £234,200 | £431,453 | 176 |
| 2002 | £245,500 | £461,906 | 182 |
| 2001 | £225,000 | £432,551 | 181 |
| 2000 | £220,000 | £431,750 | 162 |
| 1999 | £176,800 | £352,353 | 212 |
| 1998 | £155,000 | £312,879 | 180 |
| 1997 | £133,000 | £272,756 | 219 |
| 1996 | £110,000 | £231,985 | 167 |
| 1995 | £118,000 | £256,514 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical RG40 4 home went from £118,000 in 1995 to £580,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 126%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2019; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2019 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG40 4 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 2004 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG40 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.3% | −10.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Sales activity in RG40 4
How many homes change hands
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.
RG40 4 recorded 37 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 170 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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.
How RG40 4 trades
This is a thin market: 37 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. Within RG40, this sector trades 27% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around RG40 4
RG40 4 falls under Wokingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,482 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,065 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,329 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wokingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £580,000 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
RG40 4 (Finchampstead): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in RG40 4 (Finchampstead)?
Are property prices falling in RG40 4 (Finchampstead)?
Is RG40 4 (Finchampstead) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to RG40 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in RG40 today
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 4: 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in RG
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, 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 RG40
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of RG40, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG40 1 | £435,000 | 57 |
| RG40 2 | £364,000 | 28 |
| RG40 3 | £560,000 | 17 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG40 4'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RG40 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with RG40 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RG40 4 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.