Local market reports › RG area › RG8 › RG8 0
Goring market report RG8 0, Reading
The standing RG8 0 (Goring) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 2,555 registered sales in RG8 0 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for RG8 0 (Reading) is £486,200, from 16 registered sales, down 17% on five years earlier; the mean is £516,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,470 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,555 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like RG8 0 is a single group of streets within RG8 (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 RG8 0 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.
Today's RG8 0 prices, from the sold record
16 sales were registered in RG8 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £486,200. The mean works out at £516,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in RG8 0
By floor space, homes in RG8 0 have sold for about £5,470 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so RG8 0 trades 71% above the country as a whole.
A typical RG8 0 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £486,200 | £486,200 | 16 |
| 2025 | £560,000 | £573,391 | 71 |
| 2024 | £587,500 | £624,633 | 75 |
| 2023 | £638,500 | £701,556 | 77 |
| 2022 | £635,000 | £744,610 | 85 |
| 2021 | £585,000 | £740,685 | 107 |
| 2020 | £540,000 | £700,661 | 71 |
| 2019 | £542,500 | £711,088 | 68 |
| 2018 | £546,000 | £727,828 | 80 |
| 2017 | £556,000 | £758,328 | 70 |
| 2016 | £550,000 | £769,455 | 80 |
| 2015 | £445,000 | £628,785 | 75 |
| 2014 | £455,000 | £645,497 | 81 |
| 2013 | £347,500 | £500,018 | 88 |
| 2012 | £430,000 | £632,906 | 67 |
| 2011 | £383,500 | £578,938 | 64 |
| 2010 | £367,000 | £575,550 | 71 |
| 2009 | £300,000 | £482,253 | 69 |
| 2008 | £342,600 | £561,594 | 52 |
| 2007 | £390,000 | £661,549 | 99 |
| 2006 | £308,800 | £536,037 | 111 |
| 2005 | £337,500 | £600,614 | 74 |
| 2004 | £289,000 | £524,880 | 80 |
| 2003 | £280,000 | £515,828 | 88 |
| 2002 | £249,500 | £469,432 | 93 |
| 2001 | £220,000 | £422,939 | 67 |
| 2000 | £180,000 | £353,250 | 91 |
| 1999 | £157,000 | £312,893 | 110 |
| 1998 | £147,000 | £296,730 | 97 |
| 1997 | £120,000 | £246,096 | 104 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 105 |
| 1995 | £98,000 | £213,037 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical RG8 0 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £486,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 128%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 37% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the RG8 0 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 (+30.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−19.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What RG8 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.2% | −15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.6% | −8.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.2% | −4.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in RG8 0
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 16 RG8 0 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 88 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
The rental side of RG8 0
RG8 0 falls under South Oxfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,381 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,025 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,292 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £486,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,381 a month (£16,572 a year) works out at a 3.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How RG8 0 trades
Only 16 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes RG8 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Asked and answered: RG8 0 (Goring)
How much did a house sell for in RG8 0 (Goring)?
Are property prices falling in RG8 0 (Goring)?
Is RG8 0 (Goring) a good place to buy a house?
Are RG8 0 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 17% over five years in cash but down 34% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in RG8 right now
The live side of the market holds 51 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG8 district, not just RG8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Pangbourne, Reading, Reading
- Purley on Thames, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Purley on Thames, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
"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 RG8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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%) | — |
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.
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 RG8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are RG8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG8 7 | £467,500 | 22 |
| RG8 8 | £540,000 | 15 |
| RG8 9 | £655,000 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full RG8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how RG8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in RG8 0? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in RG8 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG8 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG8 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim RG8 0.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about RG8 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every RG8 0 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.