Mayfield Drive, Reading house prices are built from 199 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 19 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £240,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +33.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.1%.
Median price paid
£240,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+33.8%
Change in real terms
-3.1%
HM Land Registry199 salesLatest sale 19 May 2026
Section 01
How Mayfield Drive, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Mayfield Drive, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £90,250 | £200,398 |
| 2000s | 7 | £204,000 | £371,628 |
| 2010s | 8 | £355,000 | £500,550 |
| 2020s | 5 | £482,500 | £492,989 |
The highest yearly median on record for Mayfield Drive, Reading is £496,500 in 2023; the lowest is £81,950 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £81,950 to £495,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £177,768, so the real change over the whole record is +184.5% — about +3.67% 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: +33.8% in cash against -3.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | 19 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £556,000 | £556,000 |
| 102 | 14 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £565,000 |
| 93 | 11 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £580,000 | £580,000 |
| 84 | 16 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £592,000 | £604,870 |
| 66 | 26 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £457,000 | £466,935 |
| 50 | 5 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £490,000 | £500,652 |
| 22 | 6 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £527,500 | £538,967 |
| 41 | 6 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £448,000 | £457,739 |
| 118 | 4 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 97 | 24 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £445,000 | £454,674 |
| 147 | 18 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £516,000 | £527,217 |
| 124 | 14 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £490,000 | £515,597 |
| 103 | 11 Sep 2024 | Semi-detached | £510,000 | £536,642 |
| 1 | 29 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 110 | 16 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £522,500 | £549,795 |
| 109 | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| 159 | 15 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £552,425 |
| 2 | 10 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £452,500 | £476,138 |
| 11 | 14 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £438,500 | £461,407 |
| 16 | 7 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £502,414 |
| 28 | 31 Oct 2023 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £524,023 |
| 125 | 21 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £493,000 | £532,667 |
| 114 | 31 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £567,241 |
| 104 | 6 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £580,000 | £626,667 |
| 116 | 12 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £505,000 | £545,632 |
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 Mayfield Drive, Reading values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 Mayfield Drive | £185,000 (2004) | £556,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.2% |
| 102 Mayfield Drive | £265,000 (2008) | £565,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 84 Mayfield Drive | £375,000 (2015) | £592,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.4% |
| 66 Mayfield Drive | £160,000 (2003) | £457,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| 22 Mayfield Drive | £225,000 (2010) | £527,500 (2025) | +5.8% | +2.7% |
| 41 Mayfield Drive | £75,000 (1996) | £448,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 118 Mayfield Drive | £107,500 (1999) | £500,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 97 Mayfield Drive | £208,000 (2005) | £445,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +0.9% |
| 124 Mayfield Drive | £380,000 (2020) | £490,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +1.2% |
| 103 Mayfield Drive | £175,500 (2001) | £510,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 1 Mayfield Drive | £240,000 (2006) | £450,000 (2024) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| 110 Mayfield Drive | £204,500 (2002) | £522,500 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Mayfield Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 191 | 96.0% | £242,000 | £42,000 – £592,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 3.0% | £182,500 | £119,000 – £505,000 |
| Terraced | 2 | 1.0% | £97,500 | £97,500 – £182,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Mayfield Drive, Reading
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 199 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 | 199 | 100.0% | £240,000 |
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 Mayfield Drive, 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 £240,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.87% 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 RG4, 56 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 26 violent, 1 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 7 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.0 times quieter.
Against the 174,224 residents the 2021 census counted in Reading, that is 0.32 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 Mayfield Drive, 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.
16 state and independent schools have a RG4 postcode: 12 primary, 2 nursery, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,537 |
| Emmer Green Primary School | Primary | Community school | 417 |
| Caversham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 414 |
| The Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 410 |
| Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 374 |
| The Heights Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 353 |
| Thameside Primary School | Primary | Community school | 322 |
| Micklands Primary School | Primary | Community school | 293 |
| Sonning Common Primary School | Primary | Community school | 292 |
| Sonning Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 210 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Reading Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Reading West Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Tilehurst Rail Station | Rail | 4.4 km |
Section 09
How Mayfield Drive, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Mayfield Drive, Reading sits above that national figure — +52.4%.
Within Reading the street ranks 1877 of 3510 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £220,000 (+9.1%).
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 £42,000 to £592,000. 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.
Mayfield 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Queens Road£210,000 median
- Gosbrook Road£181,250 median
- Peppard Road£280,000 median
- Hemdean Road£230,000 median
- Meadow Way£192,995 median
- Kidmore Road£390,000 median
- Old Bath Road£315,000 median
- Abbotsmead Place£213,225 median
- Westfield Road£204,975 median
- Prospect Street£147,000 median
- Elliots Way£197,000 median
- St Peters Avenue£299,475 median
- Clonmel Close£189,975 median
- Kidmore End Road£250,000 median
- Star Road£193,750 median
- Galsworthy Drive£225,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 66 Mayfield Drive6 sales
- 28 Mayfield Drive6 sales
- 103 Mayfield Drive5 sales
- 109 Mayfield Drive4 sales
- 60 Mayfield Drive4 sales
- 64 Mayfield Drive4 sales
- 7 Mayfield Drive4 sales
- 90 Mayfield Drive4 sales
- 83 Mayfield Drive4 sales
- 84 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 22 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 118 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 110 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 12 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 105 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 49 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 72 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 145 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 123 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 122 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 58 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 38 Mayfield Drive3 sales
- 115 Mayfield Drive2 sales
- 102 Mayfield Drive2 sales
Back to Reading house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Mayfield Drive, Reading?
The median price paid in Mayfield Drive, Reading across every sale on the register is £240,000. 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 Mayfield Drive, Reading?
199 sales are on record for Mayfield Drive, Reading, the most recent completing on 19 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Mayfield Drive, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +33.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Mayfield Drive, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £496,500, set in 2023. 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 Mayfield Drive, 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 19 May 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, “Mayfield 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.