Donaldson Way, Reading house prices are built from 226 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 27 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £152,500. Across the 10 years from 2007 to 2017 the median moved +35.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.2%.
Median price paid
£152,500
Change in cash, 2007–2017
+35.7%
Change in real terms
+6.2%
HM Land Registry226 salesLatest sale 27 Jan 2026
Section 01
How Donaldson Way, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Donaldson Way, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2017. 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 | 5 | £75,000 | £166,535 |
| 2000s | 8 | £164,250 | £299,215 |
| 2010s | 4 | £209,950 | £296,030 |
The highest yearly median on record for Donaldson Way, Reading is £285,000 in 2017; the lowest is £64,000 in 1996. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £67,700 to £285,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £150,326, so the real change over the whole record is +158.0% — about +4.40% 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: +35.7% in cash against +6.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | 27 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £292,000 | £292,000 |
| 64 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 42 | 10 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 47 | 29 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £337,500 | £344,837 |
| 54 | 15 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 47 | 12 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 48 | 1 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £255,000 | £268,321 |
| 5 | 2 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £381,680 | £401,619 |
| 60 | 5 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £330,500 | £382,913 |
| 86 | 1 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £323,000 | £374,224 |
| 64 | 27 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| 29 | 2 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £362,000 | £419,408 |
| 7 | 16 Apr 2021 | Detached | £460,000 | £581,183 |
| 76 | 22 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £440,220 |
| 45 | 7 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £312,000 | £403,967 |
| 25 | 21 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £550,275 |
| 79 | 16 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 66 | 16 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £305,000 | £398,933 |
| 3 | 3 May 2019 | Semi-detached | £323,000 | £422,477 |
| 48 | 18 Apr 2019 | Terraced | £239,500 | £313,261 |
| 75 | 16 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £293,000 | £390,482 |
| 38 | 5 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £433,129 |
| 35 | 11 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £320,000 | £426,465 |
| 88 | 20 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £285,000 | £387,886 |
| 68 | 1 Dec 2017 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £442,326 |
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 Donaldson Way, Reading values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 Donaldson Way | £89,500 (2000) | £292,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 64 Donaldson Way | £275,000 (2022) | £350,000 (2025) | +8.4% | +3.9% |
| 42 Donaldson Way | £56,500 (1997) | £270,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 47 Donaldson Way | £160,000 (2003) | £337,500 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 54 Donaldson Way | £79,950 (1997) | £370,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 48 Donaldson Way | £94,000 (2001) | £255,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 5 Donaldson Way | £93,000 (1998) | £381,680 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 86 Donaldson Way | £85,000 (1998) | £323,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 29 Donaldson Way | £192,500 (2009) | £362,000 (2022) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 7 Donaldson Way | £125,000 (1999) | £460,000 (2021) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
| 45 Donaldson Way | £64,000 (1996) | £312,000 (2020) | +6.8% | +4.6% |
| 25 Donaldson Way | £170,750 (2001) | £425,000 (2020) | +4.9% | +2.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Donaldson Way, Reading 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 | 176 | 77.9% | £149,950 | £48,950 – £381,680 |
| Semi-detached | 33 | 14.6% | £169,950 | £64,000 – £425,000 |
| Detached | 9 | 4.0% | £170,750 | £89,000 – £460,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 8 | 3.5% | £70,000 | £50,000 – £173,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Donaldson Way, Reading
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 226 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 226 | 100.0% | £152,500 |
A further 6 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 Donaldson Way, Reading
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Reading, 48.1% of 91,244 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 312 | 0.3% |
| B | 13,004 | 14.3% |
| C | 30,549 | 33.5% |
| D | 32,934 | 36.1% |
| E | 11,379 | 12.5% |
| F | 2,306 | 2.5% |
| G | 760 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Reading at £1,573 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,115 for a one-bedroom home and £1,669 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £152,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.38% 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 RG5, 109 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 47 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times quieter.
Against the 174,224 residents the 2021 census counted in Reading, that is 0.63 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 Donaldson Way, Reading
The 2021 census counted 174,224 residents in Reading across 67,683 households. 51.7% of those households own their home and 48.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a RG5 postcode: 8 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bulmershe School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,530 |
| Waingels | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,382 |
| South Lake Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 443 |
| Highwood Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 429 |
| Rivermead Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 429 |
| St Dominic Savio Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 420 |
| Woodley CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 291 |
| Beechwood Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 244 |
| Willow Bank Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 235 |
| Willow Bank Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 152 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Earley Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Winnersh Triangle Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Winnersh Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Twyford Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
Section 09
How Donaldson Way, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Donaldson Way, Reading sits below that national figure — -3.2%.
Within Reading the street ranks 3078 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-30.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £48,950 to £460,000. 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.
Donaldson Way, Reading sits in Reading, in the South East.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Reading at 7.1 times median local earnings of £49,062 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
- Reading Road£320,000 median
- Church Road£329,250 median
- Norton Road£168,500 median
- Loddon Bridge Road£281,250 median
- Howth Drive£189,950 median
- Colemans Moor Road£250,000 median
- Fairwater Drive£200,750 median
- Shackleton Way£148,000 median
- Hartigan Place£155,950 median
- Kingfisher Drive£208,000 median
- Headley Road East£152,500 median
- Nightingale Road£243,250 median
- Butts Hill Road£273,174 median
- Lysander Close£150,500 median
- Headley Road£172,750 median
- Linden Road£174,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 42 Donaldson Way7 sales
- 83 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 54 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 5 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 86 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 45 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 43 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 85 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 87 Donaldson Way6 sales
- 79 Donaldson Way5 sales
- 66 Donaldson Way5 sales
- 94 Donaldson Way5 sales
- 1 Donaldson Way5 sales
- 2 Donaldson Way5 sales
- 48 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 29 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 25 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 3 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 38 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 68 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 6 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 52 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 53 Donaldson Way4 sales
- 67 Donaldson Way4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Donaldson Way, Reading?
The median price paid in Donaldson Way, Reading across every sale on the register is £152,500. 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 Donaldson Way, Reading?
226 sales are on record for Donaldson Way, Reading, the most recent completing on 27 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Donaldson Way, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +35.7% between 2007 and 2017. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Donaldson Way, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £285,000, set in 2017. 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 Donaldson Way, Reading?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 27 Jan 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, “Donaldson Way, 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.