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Finchampstead market report RG40 5, Wokingham
The standing RG40 5 (Finchampstead) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,188 sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG40 5 (Wokingham) 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 22 registered 2026 sales put the RG40 5 (Wokingham) median at £478,500, up 0% on five years earlier, with a mean of £513,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,400 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,188 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
RG40 5 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 5 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 5
Across 22 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG40 5 home went for £478,500. The mean is £513,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in RG40 5
By floor space, homes in RG40 5 have sold for about £5,400 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG40 5 sits 68% above the national market.
A typical RG40 5 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £478,500 | £478,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £530,000 | £542,674 | 67 |
| 2024 | £443,500 | £471,532 | 72 |
| 2023 | £515,000 | £565,859 | 112 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 125 |
| 2021 | £477,500 | £604,577 | 106 |
| 2020 | £442,000 | £573,504 | 79 |
| 2019 | £513,000 | £672,420 | 127 |
| 2018 | £450,000 | £599,858 | 113 |
| 2017 | £450,000 | £613,755 | 79 |
| 2016 | £441,200 | £617,243 | 90 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 77 |
| 2014 | £397,500 | £563,923 | 65 |
| 2013 | £325,500 | £468,362 | 38 |
| 2012 | £313,000 | £460,697 | 29 |
| 2011 | £282,500 | £426,466 | 38 |
| 2010 | £279,000 | £437,544 | 34 |
| 2009 | £272,000 | £437,242 | 28 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 27 |
| 2007 | £275,000 | £466,477 | 82 |
| 2006 | £267,500 | £464,346 | 118 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 73 |
| 2004 | £286,000 | £519,432 | 68 |
| 2003 | £221,800 | £408,609 | 46 |
| 2002 | £222,200 | £418,067 | 54 |
| 2001 | £195,000 | £374,878 | 54 |
| 2000 | £265,000 | £520,063 | 54 |
| 1999 | £143,700 | £286,387 | 108 |
| 1998 | £163,000 | £329,027 | 77 |
| 1997 | £139,900 | £286,907 | 69 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 41 |
| 1995 | £124,000 | £269,557 | 16 |
In cash terms the typical RG40 5 home went from £124,000 in 1995 to £478,500 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 78%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG40 5 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 (+84.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−26.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG40 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.7% | −11.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 22 RG40 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 80 sales a year over the last five years against 69 before the financial crisis. 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 5 is
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG40 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around RG40 5
The local authority for RG40 5 is Wokingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £478,500 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Asked and answered: RG40 5 (Finchampstead)
Are property prices falling in RG40 5 (Finchampstead)?
Is RG40 5 (Finchampstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG40 5 (Finchampstead)?
Will RG40 5 prices rise from here?
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.
What is for sale in RG40 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 66 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG40 district, not just RG40 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Orchard Close, Wokingham, Wokingham
- Wokingham, Berkshire, Berkshire
- Ellison Way, Wokingham, Wokingham
"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.
What another bedroom costs in RG
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the RG area. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the RG area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 1 | £435,000 | 57 |
| RG40 2 | £364,000 | 28 |
| RG40 3 | £560,000 | 17 |
| RG40 4 | £580,000 | 37 |
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 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG40 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG40 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG40 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim RG40 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RG40 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RG40 5 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.
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.