Howth Drive, Reading house prices

Howth Drive, Reading house prices are built from 271 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 10 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £189,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -45.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -60.7%.

HM Land Registry271 sales40 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median Howth Drive, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 Howth Drive, Reading is £281,250 in 2017; the lowest is £59,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £59,000 to £145,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £131,008, so the real change over the whole record is +13.1% — about +0.41% 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: -45.8% in cash against -60.7% 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 Howth Drive, 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. Howth Drive, Reading is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

172 of the sales on record are leasehold and 99 freehold — 63.5% 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 £193,919 and the median freehold sale £178,000 — a gap of -8.2%. 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 — +11.7%. 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 3 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 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.

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 £189,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.94% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Howth Drive, Reading sits above that national figure — +20.6%.

Within Reading the street ranks 2547 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-13.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,837 per square metre, across 40 of the 271 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 £50,000 to £437,500. 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.

Howth Drive, 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.

Streets nearby

• Reading Road£320,000 median
• Church Road£329,250 median
• Norton Road£168,500 median
• Loddon Bridge Road£281,250 median
• Colemans Moor Road£250,000 median
• Donaldson Way£152,500 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

• FLAT 45, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive8 sales
• FLAT 9, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive5 sales
• FLAT 19, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive5 sales
• FLAT 37, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive5 sales
• FLAT 48, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive5 sales
• FLAT 1, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive5 sales
• FLAT 3, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive5 sales
• FLAT 24, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 51, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 21, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 33, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 47, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 5, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• 93 Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 36, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• 126 Howth Drive4 sales
• 17 Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 29, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 53, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive4 sales
• 146 Howth Drive4 sales
• 72 Howth Drive4 sales
• FLAT 44, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive3 sales
• FLAT 50, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive3 sales
• FLAT 2, DOUGLAS BADER COURT Howth Drive3 sales

Back to Reading house prices.

What is the average house price in Howth Drive, Reading?

The median price paid in Howth Drive, Reading across every sale on the register is £189,950. 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 Howth Drive, Reading?

271 sales are on record for Howth Drive, Reading, the most recent completing on 10 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Howth Drive, Reading house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -45.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -60.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Howth Drive, Reading house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £281,250, 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 Howth Drive, Reading?

£3,837 per square metre, from the 40 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 10 Dec 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, “Howth Drive, 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.