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Earley market report RG6 5, Reading
The standing RG6 5 (Earley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,305 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in RG6 5 (Reading) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for RG6 5 (Reading) is £540,000, from 25 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £508,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,060 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,305 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
RG6 5 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 5 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 buyers actually paid in RG6 5
Across 25 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) RG6 5 home went for £540,000. The mean is £508,900, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
House prices per square metre in RG6 5
By floor space, homes in RG6 5 have sold for about £5,060 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 RG6 5 89% above the national figure.
RG6 5'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £540,000 | £540,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £503,500 | £515,540 | 79 |
| 2024 | £500,000 | £531,603 | 72 |
| 2023 | £512,500 | £563,112 | 68 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 95 |
| 2021 | £497,500 | £629,899 | 107 |
| 2020 | £497,500 | £645,517 | 75 |
| 2019 | £418,500 | £548,553 | 78 |
| 2018 | £412,500 | £549,870 | 68 |
| 2017 | £415,000 | £566,018 | 85 |
| 2016 | £440,000 | £615,564 | 77 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 118 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 137 |
| 2013 | £290,000 | £417,281 | 97 |
| 2012 | £282,000 | £415,069 | 77 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 84 |
| 2010 | £282,500 | £443,033 | 80 |
| 2009 | £264,500 | £425,186 | 70 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 63 |
| 2007 | £270,000 | £457,995 | 107 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 123 |
| 2005 | £228,000 | £405,748 | 111 |
| 2004 | £237,000 | £430,438 | 134 |
| 2003 | £220,000 | £405,293 | 127 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 134 |
| 2001 | £184,000 | £353,731 | 145 |
| 2000 | £157,200 | £308,505 | 130 |
| 1999 | £132,000 | £263,069 | 193 |
| 1998 | £119,500 | £241,219 | 115 |
| 1997 | £90,500 | £185,597 | 154 |
| 1996 | £90,200 | £190,228 | 156 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 121 |
In cash terms the typical RG6 5 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £540,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 192%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG6 5 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 (+80.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−13.8%). 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) | +7.2% | +4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
RG6 5 recorded 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 126 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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.
What kind of market RG6 5 is
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG6 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within RG6, this sector trades 22% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around RG6 5
For renting purposes RG6 5 sits in Wokingham. The ONS average private rent there is £1,482 a month (May 2026). 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 £540,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.3%. 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.
Real searches this page gets asked
Searches like house valuation in earley
reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £540,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Asked and answered: RG6 5 (Earley)
Is RG6 5 (Earley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in RG6 5 (Earley)?
Are property prices falling in RG6 5 (Earley)?
Will RG6 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
RG6's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 104 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG6 district, not just RG6 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% 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.
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 RG6 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.
Moving up a bedroom in RG: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the RG area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 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 3 | £428,000 | 28 |
| RG6 4 | £395,000 | 45 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in RG6 5? 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 RG6 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG6 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG6 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working RG6 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim RG6 5.
Go deeper
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See every individual RG6 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.