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Earley market report RG6 1, Reading
The RG6 1 (Earley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,827 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RG6 1 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical RG6 1 (Reading) home changed hands for £340,000 in 2026 (median of 32 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £399,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,390 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,827 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
RG6 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside RG6 (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 RG6 1 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 RG6 1
32 sales were registered in RG6 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £340,000. The mean works out at £399,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in RG6 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG6 1 costs about £4,390 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, RG6 1 sits 19% above the national market.
RG6 1's median sold price, 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 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £425,000 | £435,163 | 91 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 55 |
| 2023 | £427,500 | £469,718 | 74 |
| 2022 | £428,100 | £501,996 | 82 |
| 2021 | £350,000 | £443,145 | 111 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 67 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 71 |
| 2018 | £380,000 | £506,547 | 113 |
| 2017 | £460,000 | £627,394 | 177 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 193 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 147 |
| 2014 | £277,000 | £392,973 | 121 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 103 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 77 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 63 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 86 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 97 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 85 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 173 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 175 |
| 2005 | £214,000 | £380,834 | 134 |
| 2004 | £209,000 | £379,585 | 165 |
| 2003 | £187,100 | £344,684 | 132 |
| 2002 | £173,500 | £326,439 | 160 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 135 |
| 2000 | £132,000 | £259,050 | 143 |
| 1999 | £107,000 | £213,245 | 208 |
| 1998 | £84,500 | £170,569 | 133 |
| 1997 | £77,200 | £158,322 | 162 |
| 1996 | £62,500 | £131,810 | 137 |
| 1995 | £67,400 | £146,517 | 125 |
In cash terms the typical RG6 1 home went from £67,400 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 132%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 46% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the RG6 1 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 2015 (+39.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−20.0%). 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) | −20.0% | −21.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.1% | −5.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
How many homes change hands
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, 32 sales completed in RG6 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 152 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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.
What tenants pay around RG6 1
For renting purposes RG6 1 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.
Set against the £340,000 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
Reading the RG6 1 market
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG6 1 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. Within RG6, this sector trades 23% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about RG6 1 (Earley)
Are property prices falling in RG6 1 (Earley)?
Is RG6 1 (Earley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG6 1 (Earley)?
Will RG6 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
RG6's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 104 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG6 district, not just RG6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 RG6 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%) | — |
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. 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in RG6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG6 3 | £428,000 | 28 |
| RG6 4 | £395,000 | 45 |
| RG6 5 | £540,000 | 25 |
| RG6 7 | £530,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full RG6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in RG6 1: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at RG6 1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG6 1.
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The live map plots every individual RG6 1 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.