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Woodley market report RG5, Reading
The RG5 (Woodley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 14,187 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RG5 (Reading) 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in RG5 (Reading) sold for £445,000 in 2026, the median of 139 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £462,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,860 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 14,187 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
RG5 is a postcode district covering Woodley in Reading. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where RG5 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 sells for
Across 139 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG5 home went for £445,000. The mean is £462,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in RG5
Per square metre, RG5 homes have averaged around £4,860 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG5 sits 56% above the national market.
RG5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £445,000 | £445,000 | 139 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 381 |
| 2024 | £445,000 | £473,126 | 351 |
| 2023 | £439,200 | £482,574 | 282 |
| 2022 | £433,000 | £507,742 | 380 |
| 2021 | £415,000 | £525,444 | 527 |
| 2020 | £400,500 | £519,657 | 366 |
| 2019 | £368,000 | £482,360 | 397 |
| 2018 | £377,500 | £503,215 | 387 |
| 2017 | £387,000 | £527,829 | 439 |
| 2016 | £375,000 | £524,629 | 423 |
| 2015 | £340,000 | £480,420 | 490 |
| 2014 | £295,000 | £418,509 | 435 |
| 2013 | £260,000 | £374,114 | 409 |
| 2012 | £247,000 | £363,553 | 327 |
| 2011 | £244,500 | £369,101 | 358 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 339 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 329 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 352 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 524 |
| 2006 | £226,500 | £393,175 | 550 |
| 2005 | £214,000 | £380,834 | 487 |
| 2004 | £206,000 | £374,136 | 565 |
| 2003 | £195,000 | £359,237 | 543 |
| 2002 | £178,000 | £334,905 | 517 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 669 |
| 2000 | £146,000 | £286,525 | 484 |
| 1999 | £114,000 | £227,196 | 573 |
| 1998 | £99,500 | £200,848 | 526 |
| 1997 | £86,500 | £177,394 | 636 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 579 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 423 |
In cash terms the typical RG5 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £445,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 177%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG5 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 (+28.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.0%). 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) | −1.1% | −3.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £642,000 against £249,700 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, RG5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £642,000 | 39 | 3,367 |
| Semi-detached | £457,800 | 48 | 5,763 |
| Terraced | £367,500 | 26 | 3,090 |
| Flats | £249,700 | 26 | 1,967 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
RG5 recorded 296 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 542 sales a year before the financial crisis and 307 a year over the last five. 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.
Rents around RG5
For renting purposes RG5 sits in Wokingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,482 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,065 a month here against £2,329 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wokingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, which against the £445,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
RG5 (Woodley): the questions that come up
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Where do RG5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
What is for sale in RG5 right now
Everything above is what homes in RG5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 61 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the RG5 median sold price.
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 →
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. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
RG5 ranks 11 of 30 in the RG area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, RG area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside RG5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG5 3 | £412,000 | 45 |
| RG5 4 | £462,200 | 94 |
How RG5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the RG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| RG9 | £695,000 | -2% |
| RG29 | £617,000 | +23% |
| RG25 | £610,000 | +26% |
| RG10 | £600,000 | +5% |
| RG20 | £542,500 | +6% |
| RG8 | £500,000 | -13% |
| RG4 | £487,500 | +4% |
| RG7 | £465,500 | +1% |
| RG42 | £465,000 | +3% |
| RG45 | £460,000 | -8% |
| RG40 | £455,000 | +1% |
| RG5 (this report) | £445,000 | +7% |
| RG27 | £445,000 | -1% |
| RG6 | £442,500 | +5% |
| RG41 | £442,500 | -5% |
| RG28 | £435,000 | +16% |
| RG31 | £403,300 | +12% |
| RG26 | £390,000 | +11% |
| RG23 | £387,500 | +3% |
| RG2 | £385,000 | +3% |
| RG18 | £380,000 | +0% |
| RG17 | £375,000 | -3% |
| RG12 | £370,000 | +14% |
| RG22 | £370,000 | +19% |
Thinking of selling in RG5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual RG5 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.