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Earley market report RG6 3, Reading
The RG6 3 (Earley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,869 registered sales in RG6 3 (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 middle 2026 sale in RG6 3 (Reading) came in at £428,000, out of 28 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £411,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,180 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,869 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
RG6 3 is one sector of RG6 (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 RG6 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.
What a home in RG6 3 sells for
In the RG6 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £428,000, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £411,600, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
RG6 3 prices by floor area
A square metre of RG6 3 home has cost about £5,180 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG6 3 trades 50% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical RG6 3 home, 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 | £428,000 | £428,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £375,200 | £384,172 | 70 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 57 |
| 2023 | £395,000 | £434,009 | 47 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 75 |
| 2021 | £367,500 | £465,302 | 122 |
| 2020 | £342,000 | £443,752 | 55 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 85 |
| 2018 | £352,500 | £469,889 | 67 |
| 2017 | £333,800 | £455,270 | 90 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 84 |
| 2015 | £332,500 | £469,823 | 106 |
| 2014 | £273,000 | £387,298 | 109 |
| 2013 | £247,000 | £355,408 | 119 |
| 2012 | £231,000 | £340,003 | 101 |
| 2011 | £233,500 | £352,495 | 97 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 91 |
| 2009 | £212,500 | £341,596 | 74 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 59 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 140 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 248 |
| 2005 | £207,200 | £368,732 | 148 |
| 2004 | £194,200 | £352,705 | 164 |
| 2003 | £176,000 | £324,235 | 153 |
| 2002 | £161,000 | £302,920 | 189 |
| 2001 | £143,800 | £276,448 | 200 |
| 2000 | £127,000 | £249,238 | 176 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 224 |
| 1998 | £88,800 | £179,249 | 171 |
| 1997 | £83,000 | £170,216 | 187 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 181 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 152 |
In cash terms the typical RG6 3 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £428,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 192%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG6 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 2015 (+21.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.1% | +11.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 28 sales completed in RG6 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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.
How RG6 3 trades
This is a thin market: 28 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 record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of RG6 3
The local authority for RG6 3 is Wokingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, which against the £428,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
RG6 3 (Earley): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in RG6 3 (Earley)?
Is RG6 3 (Earley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG6 3 (Earley)?
Where do RG6 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 RG6 right now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RG prices by size
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.
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 1 | £340,000 | 32 |
| 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.
Selling in RG6 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in RG6 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the RG6 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded RG6 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to RG6 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RG6 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.