Bath Road, Reading house prices

Bath Road, Reading house prices are built from 1,262 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £176,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +3.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -25.7%.

HM Land Registry1,262 sales291 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Bath Road, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 Bath Road, Reading is £425,000 in 2022; the lowest is £49,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £52,950 to £267,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,574, so the real change over the whole record is +127.5% — about +2.69% 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: +3.7% in cash against -25.7% 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 Bath Road, Reading values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

710 of the sales on record are leasehold and 552 freehold — 56.3% 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 £147,975 and the median freehold sale £280,000 — a gap of +89.2%. 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 — +33.5%. 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 88 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 Basingstoke and Deane, 57.0% of 86,071 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% 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 Basingstoke and Deane at £1,310 a month as of Jun 2026 — £931 for a one-bedroom home and £1,467 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £176,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.91% 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 RG7, 34 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 11 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.9 times quieter.

Against the 185,154 residents the 2021 census counted in Basingstoke and Deane, that is 0.18 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 185,154 residents in Basingstoke and Deane across 76,645 households. 66.7% of those households own their home and 33.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a RG7 postcode: 16 primary, 3 secondary. 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. Bath Road, Reading sits above that national figure — +12.1%.

Within Reading the street ranks 2734 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-19.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,269 per square metre, across 291 of the 1,262 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 £15,000 to £2,650,000. 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.

Bath Road, Reading sits in Basingstoke and Deane, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Basingstoke and Deane at 8.8 times median local earnings of £41,470 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

• Fullbrook Avenue£290,000 median
• Mallard Way£186,250 median
• St Johns Road£215,000 median
• Woodfield Way£172,000 median
• Woodcock Court£250,000 median
• Woodlands Avenue£285,000 median
• Horseshoe Crescent£170,000 median
• School Lane£296,000 median
• The Avenue£465,000 median
• Recreation Road£225,000 median
• Groves Lea£155,000 median
• Abbey Gardens£410,000 median
• Rectory Road£470,000 median
• North Street£222,000 median
• Fallows Road£313,500 median
• Beatty Rise£301,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 60 Bath Road7 sales
• 22, FLORIDA COURT Bath Road7 sales
• 216 Bath Road6 sales
• FLAT F, 6 Bath Road6 sales
• 6, HARROW COURT Bath Road6 sales
• 3, WARDSTONE HOUSE Bath Road6 sales
• ELMS Bath Road6 sales
• 4, VALERIE COURT Bath Road6 sales
• 20, BELGRAVIA COURT Bath Road6 sales
• 39, PETWORTH COURT Bath Road6 sales
• 12, BELGRAVIA COURT Bath Road6 sales
• 73, LIMA COURT Bath Road6 sales
• CARTWHEEL COTTAGE Bath Road6 sales
• 32, PETWORTH COURT Bath Road6 sales
• FLAT A, 6 Bath Road6 sales
• 22, PETWORTH COURT Bath Road5 sales
• 32, BELGRAVIA COURT Bath Road5 sales
• ALBANY HOUSE Bath Road5 sales
• CHESTNUTS Bath Road5 sales
• FLAT 5, CEDAR LODGE, 26 Bath Road5 sales
• 1, MODEL FARM COTTAGES Bath Road5 sales
• 3, BROWNS COTTAGES Bath Road5 sales
• FLAT C, 4 Bath Road5 sales
• OLD POST OFFICE Bath Road5 sales

Back to Reading house prices.

What is the average house price in Bath Road, Reading?

The median price paid in Bath Road, Reading across every sale on the register is £176,500. 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 Bath Road, Reading?

1,262 sales are on record for Bath Road, Reading, the most recent completing on 18 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Bath Road, Reading house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +3.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -25.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bath Road, Reading house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £425,000, set in 2022. 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 Bath Road, Reading?

£2,269 per square metre, from the 291 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 Jun 2026. 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, “Bath Road, Reading 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.