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Aldermaston market report RG7 5, Reading
The RG7 5 (Aldermaston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,969 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in RG7 5 (Reading) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in RG7 5 (Reading) sold for £425,000 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £524,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,460 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,969 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like RG7 5 is a single group of streets within RG7 (Reading), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where RG7 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.
RG7 5 sold prices: where the market stands
In the RG7 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £425,000, from 31 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £524,700, sitting 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 RG7 5
A square metre of RG7 5 home has cost about £4,460 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts RG7 5 49% above the country at large.
The price of a typical RG7 5 home, 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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £389,100 | £398,405 | 86 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 67 |
| 2023 | £385,000 | £423,021 | 51 |
| 2022 | £392,000 | £459,665 | 83 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 114 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 69 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 97 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 82 |
| 2017 | £323,000 | £440,540 | 81 |
| 2016 | £333,000 | £465,870 | 94 |
| 2015 | £315,000 | £445,095 | 108 |
| 2014 | £290,000 | £411,416 | 99 |
| 2013 | £216,000 | £310,802 | 84 |
| 2012 | £243,500 | £358,402 | 55 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 71 |
| 2010 | £228,000 | £357,563 | 70 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 65 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 53 |
| 2007 | £260,200 | £441,372 | 116 |
| 2006 | £243,000 | £421,817 | 146 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 98 |
| 2004 | £203,500 | £369,596 | 110 |
| 2003 | £184,000 | £338,973 | 113 |
| 2002 | £173,200 | £325,874 | 132 |
| 2001 | £153,000 | £294,135 | 109 |
| 2000 | £134,000 | £262,975 | 111 |
| 1999 | £106,000 | £211,252 | 142 |
| 1998 | £98,800 | £199,435 | 118 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 90 |
| 1996 | £86,000 | £181,370 | 106 |
| 1995 | £75,500 | £164,125 | 118 |
In cash terms the typical RG7 5 home went from £75,500 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 159%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG7 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 2014 (+34.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−11.3%). 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) | +9.2% | +6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in RG7 5
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.
The register shows 31 RG7 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around RG7 5
RG7 5 falls under West Berkshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,290 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £902 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,121 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Berkshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £425,000 median sold price, £1,290 a month is £15,480 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
What kind of market RG7 5 is
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG7 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within RG7, this sector trades 9% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on RG7 5 (Aldermaston)
How much did a house sell for in RG7 5 (Aldermaston)?
Are property prices falling in RG7 5 (Aldermaston)?
Is RG7 5 (Aldermaston) a good place to buy a house?
Will RG7 5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 RG7 right now
The live side of the market holds 143 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG7 district, not just RG7 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
43% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 RG7 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: RG prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the RG area, straight 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%) | — |
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. 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.
RG area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in RG7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG7 1 | £460,000 | 73 |
| RG7 2 | £735,000 | 6 |
| RG7 3 | £403,800 | 42 |
| RG7 4 | £640,500 | 16 |
| RG7 6 | £550,000 | 10 |
Zoom out to the full RG7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in RG7 5? 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 RG7 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG7 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG7 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every RG7 5 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.
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.