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Woodley market report RG5 3, Reading
The standing RG5 3 (Woodley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,346 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG5 3 (Reading) 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 RG5 3 (Reading) is £412,000, from 45 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £425,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,790 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,346 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG5 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG5 (Reading). 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 RG5 3 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 RG5 3
In the RG5 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £412,000, from 45 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £425,900, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in RG5 3
The last five years of sales put RG5 3 at roughly £4,790 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, RG5 3 sits 45% above the national market.
The price of a typical RG5 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £412,000 | £412,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £435,100 | £445,505 | 142 |
| 2024 | £431,000 | £458,242 | 134 |
| 2023 | £412,500 | £453,237 | 120 |
| 2022 | £419,500 | £491,912 | 149 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 176 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 129 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 140 |
| 2018 | £362,500 | £483,219 | 116 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 158 |
| 2016 | £342,500 | £479,161 | 129 |
| 2015 | £315,000 | £445,095 | 158 |
| 2014 | £281,000 | £398,648 | 173 |
| 2013 | £264,000 | £379,870 | 199 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 129 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 138 |
| 2010 | £235,500 | £369,325 | 136 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 135 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 182 |
| 2007 | £249,500 | £423,221 | 257 |
| 2006 | £216,000 | £374,948 | 206 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 214 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 224 |
| 2003 | £188,000 | £346,342 | 211 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 189 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 245 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 179 |
| 1999 | £112,000 | £223,210 | 210 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 159 |
| 1997 | £84,700 | £173,703 | 224 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 183 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical RG5 3 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £412,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 171%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG5 3 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG5 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 45 sales completed in RG5 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 216 sales a year before the financial crisis and 118 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the RG5 3 market
This is a thin market: 45 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.
The rental side of RG5 3
RG5 3 falls under Wokingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,482 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £412,000 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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: RG5 3 (Woodley)
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Where do RG5 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
On the market in RG5 today
The live side of the market holds 61 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG5 district, not just RG5 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 RG5 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.
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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
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 RG5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RG5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG5 4 | £462,200 | 94 |
Zoom out to the full RG5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in RG5 3? 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 RG5 3'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 RG5 3.
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The live map plots every individual RG5 3 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.