Shaw Road, Newbury house prices are built from 127 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 18 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £235,000. Across the 12 years from 2009 to 2021 the median moved +30.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.5%.
Median price paid
£235,000
Change in cash, 2009–2021
+30.7%
Change in real terms
+0.5%
Median per m²
£2,430
HM Land Registry127 sales19 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Shaw Road, Newbury prices moved
The chart tracks the median Shaw Road, Newbury house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2021. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £85,000 | £188,740 |
| 2000s | 6 | £195,998 | £357,050 |
| 2010s | 2 | £288,750 | £407,138 |
| 2020s | 2 | £305,000 | £311,630 |
The highest yearly median on record for Shaw Road, Newbury is £326,700 in 2021; the lowest is £85,000 in 1998. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £94,950 to £326,700.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £201,323, so the real change over the whole record is +105.0% — about +3.04% 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: +30.7% in cash against +0.5% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 18 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £362,000 | £369,870 |
| 69 | 6 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £337,000 | £354,604 |
| 29 | 29 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 69 | 3 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| 71 | 17 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £410,000 | £475,021 |
| 31 | 5 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 27 | 5 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £420,000 | £486,606 |
| 59 | 20 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £329,000 | £415,672 |
| 29 | 15 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £450,151 | £568,739 |
| 101 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £317,500 | £401,142 |
| 63 | 3 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 37 | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £451,000 | £569,812 |
| 47 | 28 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £326,700 | £412,766 |
| 65 | 21 May 2021 | Terraced | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 107 | 1 Oct 2020 | Detached | £675,000 | £873,967 |
| 94 | 3 Jul 2020 | Semi-detached | £267,000 | £345,702 |
| 51 | 15 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £305,000 | £394,904 |
| 75 | 22 May 2020 | Terraced | £300,000 | £388,430 |
| Serenity, 43 | 16 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £325,000 | £420,799 |
| 105 | 27 Sep 2019 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £313,915 |
| 79 | 24 May 2019 | Terraced | £295,000 | £385,853 |
| 49 | 17 May 2019 | Terraced | £295,000 | £385,853 |
| 39 | 20 Dec 2018 | Terraced | £445,000 | £593,053 |
| 33 | 20 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £200,000 | £266,541 |
| 71 | 19 May 2017 | Terraced | £364,000 | £495,405 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Shaw Road, Newbury values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 Shaw Road | £85,000 (1998) | £362,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 69 Shaw Road | £140,000 (2002) | £337,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
| 29 Shaw Road | £96,500 (1997) | £475,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 71 Shaw Road | £68,000 (1998) | £410,000 (2022) | +7.8% | +5.2% |
| 31 Shaw Road | £84,000 (1996) | £495,000 (2022) | +7.1% | +4.5% |
| 27 Shaw Road | £208,000 (2003) | £420,000 (2022) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 59 Shaw Road | £94,950 (1997) | £329,000 (2021) | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| 101 Shaw Road | £85,000 (1997) | £317,500 (2021) | +5.6% | +3.4% |
| 63 Shaw Road | £193,000 (2005) | £300,000 (2021) | +2.8% | +0.5% |
| 47 Shaw Road | £105,000 (2001) | £326,700 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| 37 Shaw Road | £68,000 (1995) | £451,000 (2021) | +7.5% | +5.2% |
| 65 Shaw Road | £200,000 (2005) | £325,000 (2021) | +3.1% | +0.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Shaw Road, Newbury is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 92 | 72.4% | £246,000 | £57,600 – £495,000 |
| Semi-detached | 24 | 18.9% | £180,000 | £68,000 – £317,500 |
| Detached | 9 | 7.1% | £235,000 | £109,950 – £775,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 1.6% | £55,750 | £55,750 – £57,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Shaw Road, Newbury
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 125 freehold — 1.6% 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 £56,625 and the median freehold sale £235,000 — a gap of +315.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 2 | 1.6% | £56,625 |
| Freehold | 125 | 98.4% | £235,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.8% | £105,000 |
| Existing home | 126 | 99.2% | £235,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -55.3%. 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 1 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.
Section 07
Living in Shaw Road, Newbury
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 315 | 0.4% |
| B | 7,915 | 10.4% |
| C | 24,952 | 32.9% |
| D | 27,115 | 35.7% |
| E | 11,327 | 14.9% |
| F | 3,431 | 4.5% |
| G | 792 | 1.0% |
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 £235,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.65% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Shaw Road, Newbury
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Bartholomew's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,905 |
| Trinity School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,349 |
| Park House School | Secondary | Academy converter | 981 |
| The Winchcombe School | Primary | Community school | 436 |
| Falkland Primary School | Primary | Community school | 422 |
| The Willows Primary School | Primary | Community school | 337 |
| John Rankin Junior School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 311 |
| Speenhamland School | Primary | Academy converter | 290 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 246 |
| St Nicolas C.E. Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 244 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Newbury Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Newbury Racecourse Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Thatcham Rail Station | Rail | 5.6 km |
| Kintbury Rail Station | Rail | 8.5 km |
Section 09
How Shaw Road, Newbury compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Shaw Road, Newbury sits above that national figure — +49.2%.
Within Newbury the street ranks 461 of 791 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £230,000 (+2.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,430 per square metre, across 19 of the 127 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 £55,750 to £775,000. 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.
Shaw 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- 71 Shaw Road8 sales
- 59 Shaw Road6 sales
- 37 Shaw Road6 sales
- 47 Shaw Road6 sales
- 75 Shaw Road6 sales
- 69 Shaw Road5 sales
- 29 Shaw Road5 sales
- 27 Shaw Road5 sales
- 51 Shaw Road5 sales
- 79 Shaw Road5 sales
- 49 Shaw Road5 sales
- 33 Shaw Road5 sales
- 25 Shaw Road5 sales
- 65 Shaw Road4 sales
- 39 Shaw Road4 sales
- 11 Shaw Road4 sales
- 23 Shaw Road4 sales
- 53 Shaw Road3 sales
- 31 Shaw Road3 sales
- 101 Shaw Road3 sales
- 63 Shaw Road3 sales
- THE ARCHWAY, 33A Shaw Road3 sales
- 67 Shaw Road3 sales
- 43 Shaw Road3 sales
Back to Newbury house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Shaw Road, Newbury?
The median price paid in Shaw Road, Newbury across every sale on the register is £235,000. 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 Shaw Road, Newbury?
127 sales are on record for Shaw Road, Newbury, the most recent completing on 18 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Shaw Road, Newbury house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +30.7% between 2009 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Shaw Road, Newbury house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £326,700, set in 2021. 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 Shaw Road, Newbury?
£2,430 per square metre, from the 19 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 18 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, “Shaw 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.