Groves Lea, Reading house prices are built from 139 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 11 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £155,000. Across the 15 years from 2006 to 2021 the median moved -32.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -51.9%.
Median price paid
£155,000
Change in cash, 2006–2021
-32.2%
Change in real terms
-51.9%
HM Land Registry139 salesLatest sale 11 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Groves Lea, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Groves Lea, Reading 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 | 3 | £89,498 | £198,727 |
| 2000s | 6 | £151,475 | £275,943 |
| 2010s | 1 | £127,500 | £179,775 |
| 2020s | 1 | £198,000 | £202,304 |
The highest yearly median on record for Groves Lea, Reading is £292,000 in 2006; the lowest is £78,950 in 1999. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £89,498 to £198,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £189,762, so the real change over the whole record is +31.8% — about +1.16% 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: -32.2% in cash against -51.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 11 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £220,000 |
| 58 | 28 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £182,500 | £182,500 |
| 33 | 7 Nov 2025 | Detached | £670,000 | £684,565 |
| 34 | 1 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £208,550 | £213,084 |
| 18 | 13 Jan 2025 | Detached | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| 55 | 11 Oct 2024 | Detached | £547,000 | £575,575 |
| 11 | 18 Jun 2024 | Detached | £730,000 | £768,134 |
| 54 | 10 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £179,000 | £193,402 |
| 58 | 16 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £183,000 | £212,021 |
| 68 | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 22 | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| 26 | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £183,000 | £231,210 |
| 62 | 30 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £166,000 | £209,731 |
| 60 | 26 Feb 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £198,000 | £250,161 |
| 43 | 10 Feb 2021 | Detached | £517,000 | £653,199 |
| 6 | 27 Aug 2020 | Detached | £475,000 | £615,014 |
| 36 | 3 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £208,000 | £269,311 |
| 32 | 9 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £312,000 | £403,967 |
| 44 | 15 Nov 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £241,976 |
| 37 | 16 Oct 2019 | Detached | £485,000 | £634,369 |
| 34 | 2 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £326,994 |
| 16 | 21 Jun 2019 | Detached | £500,000 | £653,989 |
| 54 | 25 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £193,242 |
| 56 | 25 Apr 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £188,500 | £251,215 |
| 58 | 12 Dec 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £210,956 |
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 Groves Lea, Reading values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 Groves Lea | £59,000 (1997) | £220,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +2.0% |
| 58 Groves Lea | £155,000 (2017) | £182,500 (2026) | +1.8% | -1.6% |
| 33 Groves Lea | £355,000 (2006) | £670,000 (2025) | +3.4% | +0.4% |
| 34 Groves Lea | £130,000 (2002) | £208,550 (2025) | +2.1% | -0.7% |
| 18 Groves Lea | £137,000 (1998) | £475,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 55 Groves Lea | £236,000 (2001) | £547,000 (2024) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 54 Groves Lea | £117,000 (2013) | £179,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 68 Groves Lea | £67,500 (1998) | £210,000 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.3% |
| 26 Groves Lea | £70,000 (2000) | £183,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
| 62 Groves Lea | £53,500 (1997) | £166,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.6% |
| 22 Groves Lea | £132,000 (2003) | £210,000 (2021) | +2.6% | +0.3% |
| 60 Groves Lea | £75,000 (1999) | £198,000 (2021) | +4.5% | +2.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Groves Lea, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 77 | 55.4% | £132,500 | £49,950 – £220,000 |
| Detached | 54 | 38.8% | £247,000 | £109,000 – £730,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 5.8% | £191,000 | £130,000 – £312,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Groves Lea, Reading
77 of the sales on record are leasehold and 62 freehold — 55.4% 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 £132,500 and the median freehold sale £238,000 — a gap of +79.6%. 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 | 77 | 55.4% | £132,500 |
| Freehold | 62 | 44.6% | £238,000 |
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 Groves Lea, Reading
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 423 | 0.5% |
| B | 14,700 | 17.1% |
| C | 33,960 | 39.5% |
| D | 26,664 | 31.0% |
| E | 7,851 | 9.1% |
| F | 1,949 | 2.3% |
| G | 524 | 0.6% |
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 £155,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.14% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Groves Lea, Reading
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Willink School | Secondary | Community school | 1,205 |
| Theale Green School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 803 |
| Theale C.E. Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 301 |
| Oakbank School | Secondary | Free schools | 300 |
| Mortimer St Mary's C.E. Junior School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 235 |
| Lambs Lane Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 211 |
| Grazeley Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 204 |
| Garland Junior School | Primary | Community school | 185 |
| Mrs Bland's Infant School | Primary | Community school | 181 |
| Mortimer St. John's C.E. Infant School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 164 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Theale Rail Station | Rail | 4.0 km |
| Mortimer Rail Station | Rail | 4.1 km |
| Aldermaston Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Reading Green Park | Rail | 6.2 km |
Section 09
How Groves Lea, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Groves Lea, Reading sits below that national figure — -1.6%.
Within Reading the street ranks 3042 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-29.5%).
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 £49,950 to £730,000. 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.
Groves Lea, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Bath Road£176,500 median
- 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
- 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
- 29 Groves Lea6 sales
- 26 Groves Lea5 sales
- 60 Groves Lea5 sales
- 6 Groves Lea5 sales
- 30 Groves Lea5 sales
- 46 Groves Lea5 sales
- 70 Groves Lea5 sales
- 48 Groves Lea4 sales
- 34 Groves Lea4 sales
- 68 Groves Lea4 sales
- 22 Groves Lea4 sales
- 62 Groves Lea4 sales
- 36 Groves Lea4 sales
- 32 Groves Lea4 sales
- 42 Groves Lea4 sales
- 50 Groves Lea4 sales
- 58 Groves Lea3 sales
- 54 Groves Lea3 sales
- 43 Groves Lea3 sales
- 44 Groves Lea3 sales
- 37 Groves Lea3 sales
- 56 Groves Lea3 sales
- 27 Groves Lea3 sales
- 40 Groves Lea3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Groves Lea, Reading?
The median price paid in Groves Lea, Reading across every sale on the register is £155,000. 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 Groves Lea, Reading?
139 sales are on record for Groves Lea, Reading, the most recent completing on 11 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Groves Lea, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -32.2% between 2006 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -51.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Groves Lea, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £292,000, set in 2006. 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 Groves Lea, 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 11 Feb 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, “Groves Lea, 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.