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Goring market report RG8 7, Reading
The RG8 7 (Goring) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,715 HM Land Registry entries for RG8 7 (Reading), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in RG8 7 (Reading) came in at £467,500, out of 22 registered, down 20% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £566,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,340 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,715 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like RG8 7 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 7 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 RG8 7 homes really sell for
22 sales were registered in RG8 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £467,500. The mean works out at £566,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in RG8 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in RG8 7 costs about £5,340 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, RG8 7 runs 64% above it.
A typical RG8 7 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 | £467,500 | £467,500 | 22 |
| 2025 | £730,000 | £747,457 | 67 |
| 2024 | £635,000 | £675,135 | 63 |
| 2023 | £555,000 | £609,809 | 72 |
| 2022 | £585,000 | £685,979 | 61 |
| 2021 | £587,500 | £743,851 | 118 |
| 2020 | £600,000 | £778,512 | 81 |
| 2019 | £465,000 | £609,504 | 65 |
| 2018 | £577,500 | £769,818 | 72 |
| 2017 | £498,000 | £679,222 | 76 |
| 2016 | £443,000 | £619,761 | 79 |
| 2015 | £533,500 | £753,836 | 80 |
| 2014 | £365,000 | £517,816 | 85 |
| 2013 | £425,000 | £611,533 | 63 |
| 2012 | £400,000 | £588,750 | 88 |
| 2011 | £320,000 | £483,077 | 79 |
| 2010 | £313,500 | £491,649 | 86 |
| 2009 | £342,500 | £550,572 | 82 |
| 2008 | £385,000 | £631,096 | 54 |
| 2007 | £350,000 | £593,697 | 104 |
| 2006 | £287,500 | £499,063 | 96 |
| 2005 | £280,000 | £498,287 | 96 |
| 2004 | £290,000 | £526,697 | 107 |
| 2003 | £245,000 | £451,349 | 115 |
| 2002 | £216,000 | £406,402 | 107 |
| 2001 | £212,500 | £408,520 | 112 |
| 2000 | £197,500 | £387,594 | 85 |
| 1999 | £174,000 | £346,773 | 110 |
| 1998 | £138,500 | £279,572 | 100 |
| 1997 | £120,000 | £246,096 | 98 |
| 1996 | £115,000 | £242,530 | 110 |
| 1995 | £121,800 | £264,774 | 82 |
In cash terms the typical RG8 7 home went from £121,800 in 1995 to £467,500 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 77%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 40% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the RG8 7 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 (+46.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−36.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −36.0% | −37.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.5% | −8.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
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.
The register shows 22 RG8 7 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 103 sales a year before the financial crisis and 57 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.
The rental side of RG8 7
The local authority for RG8 7 is South Oxfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,381 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,025 a month here against £2,292 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Oxfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,381 a month is £16,572 a year, which against the £467,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
The shape of the RG8 7 market
This is a thin market: 22 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. 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.
RG8 7 (Goring): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in RG8 7 (Goring)?
Are property prices falling in RG8 7 (Goring)?
Is RG8 7 (Goring) a good place to buy a house?
Will RG8 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 20% over five years in cash but down 37% 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.
On the market in RG8 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 51 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole RG8 district, not just RG8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% 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.
- Pangbourne, Reading, Reading
- Purley on Thames, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
- Purley on Thames, Reading, Berkshire, Reading
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every RG8 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
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%) | — |
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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of RG8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| RG8 0 | £486,200 | 16 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in RG8 7? 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 RG8 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from RG8 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded RG8 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual RG8 7 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.