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Woodley market report RG5 4, Reading
The RG5 4 (Woodley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 8,841 registered sales in RG5 4 (Reading) 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.
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 4 (Reading) is £462,200, from 94 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £480,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,900 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,841 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG5 4 is one sector of RG5 (Reading): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where RG5 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.
What a home in RG5 4 sells for
The RG5 4 median stands at £462,200 for 2026, built from 94 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £480,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in RG5 4
By floor space, homes in RG5 4 have sold for about £4,900 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving RG5 4 62% above the national figure.
A typical RG5 4 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £462,200 | £462,200 | 94 |
| 2025 | £460,000 | £471,000 | 239 |
| 2024 | £460,000 | £489,074 | 217 |
| 2023 | £454,000 | £498,835 | 162 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 231 |
| 2021 | £437,600 | £554,058 | 351 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 237 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 257 |
| 2018 | £398,000 | £530,542 | 271 |
| 2017 | £405,000 | £552,379 | 281 |
| 2016 | £390,000 | £545,614 | 294 |
| 2015 | £365,000 | £515,745 | 332 |
| 2014 | £307,200 | £435,817 | 262 |
| 2013 | £256,200 | £368,646 | 210 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 198 |
| 2011 | £247,000 | £372,875 | 220 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 203 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 194 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 170 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 267 |
| 2006 | £235,700 | £409,145 | 344 |
| 2005 | £218,000 | £387,952 | 273 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 341 |
| 2003 | £198,000 | £364,764 | 332 |
| 2002 | £182,500 | £343,372 | 328 |
| 2001 | £157,000 | £301,824 | 424 |
| 2000 | £149,000 | £292,413 | 305 |
| 1999 | £115,500 | £230,185 | 363 |
| 1998 | £103,000 | £207,913 | 367 |
| 1997 | £87,500 | £179,445 | 412 |
| 1996 | £78,000 | £164,499 | 396 |
| 1995 | £76,500 | £166,299 | 266 |
In cash terms the typical RG5 4 home went from £76,500 in 1995 to £462,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 178%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG5 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 2000 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−5.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG5 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.5% | −1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
RG5 4 recorded 94 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 327 sales a year before the financial crisis and 189 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 RG5 4
RG5 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.
Against the £462,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,482 a month (£17,784 a year) works out at a 3.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on RG5 4 (Woodley)
Is RG5 4 (Woodley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG5 4 (Woodley)?
Are property prices falling in RG5 4 (Woodley)?
Are RG5 4 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 RG5 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 61 homes on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG5 district, not just RG5 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 RG5 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.
What another bedroom costs in RG
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG5 3 | £412,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full RG5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RG5 4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG5 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG5 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG5 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working RG5 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG5 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RG5 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual RG5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.