Old Bath Road, Newbury house prices

Old Bath Road, Newbury house prices are built from 125 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 22 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £212,500. Across the 10 years from 2008 to 2018 the median moved +23.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.6%.

HM Land Registry125 sales36 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Aug 2025

The chart tracks the median Old Bath Road, Newbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2018. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Old Bath Road, Newbury is £303,500 in 2018; the lowest is £69,973 in 1997. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £69,973 to £303,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £148,363, so the real change over the whole record is +172.6% — about +4.89% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +23.9% in cash against -1.6% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Old Bath Road, Newbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Old Bath Road, Newbury is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

85 of the sales on record are leasehold and 40 freehold — 68.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £175,000 and the median freehold sale £325,000 — a gap of +85.7%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +24.4%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 5 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across West Berkshire, 43.7% of 75,847 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in West Berkshire at £1,303 a month as of Jun 2026 — £911 for a one-bedroom home and £1,471 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £212,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.36% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of RG14, 262 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 97 violent, 5 burglary, 4 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.

Against the 161,448 residents the 2021 census counted in West Berkshire, that is 1.62 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 161,448 residents in West Berkshire across 66,658 households. 68.9% of those households own their home and 31.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

17 state and independent schools have a RG14 postcode: 12 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Old Bath Road, Newbury sits above that national figure — +34.9%.

Within Newbury the street ranks 535 of 791 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £230,000 (-7.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,590 per square metre, across 36 of the 125 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £42,500 to £900,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Old Bath Road, Newbury sits in West Berkshire, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in West Berkshire at 9.6 times median local earnings of £42,135 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets nearby

• Andover Road£360,000 median
• Craven Road£143,000 median
• Kingman Way£301,000 median
• Racecourse Road£289,950 median
• London Road£135,000 median
• Walton Way£146,000 median
• Boundary Road£142,000 median
• Two Rivers Way£139,500 median
• Russell Road£205,000 median
• Jago Court£200,000 median
• West Mills£168,000 median
• Windsor Court£137,000 median
• Old College Road£225,000 median
• Mill Lane£139,950 median
• Martingale Chase£186,000 median
• Bartholomew Street£150,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 10, CASTLE HOUSE Old Bath Road6 sales
• FLAT 6, CASTLE HOUSE Old Bath Road5 sales
• FLAT 9, CASTLE HOUSE Old Bath Road5 sales
• FLAT 8, CASTLE HOUSE Old Bath Road5 sales
• FLAT 4, CASTLE HOUSE Old Bath Road5 sales
• 8 Old Bath Road4 sales
• 14 Old Bath Road4 sales
• FLAT 7, CASTLE HOUSE Old Bath Road4 sales
• FLAT 7, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road4 sales
• FLAT 8, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• FLAT 10, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• 7, MARTINEAU COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• FLAT 1, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• 16 Old Bath Road3 sales
• 52 Old Bath Road3 sales
• FLAT 3, CASTLE HOUSE Old Bath Road3 sales
• FLAT 9, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• FLAT 3, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• 10 Old Bath Road3 sales
• FLAT 13, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• SOUTH VIEW, 20 Old Bath Road3 sales
• FLAT 14, WILSON VALKENBURG COURT Old Bath Road3 sales
• 8, MARTINEAU COURT Old Bath Road2 sales
• 11 Old Bath Road2 sales

Back to Newbury house prices.

What is the average house price in Old Bath Road, Newbury?

The median price paid in Old Bath Road, Newbury across every sale on the register is £212,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Old Bath Road, Newbury?

125 sales are on record for Old Bath Road, Newbury, the most recent completing on 22 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Old Bath Road, Newbury house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +23.9% between 2008 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Old Bath Road, Newbury house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £303,500, set in 2018. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Old Bath Road, Newbury?

£2,590 per square metre, from the 36 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 22 Aug 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Old Bath Road, Newbury house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.