Rushley Way, Reading house prices are built from 174 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2011 and the most recent on 7 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £174,500. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +50.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.7%.
Median price paid
£174,500
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+50.0%
Change in real terms
+23.7%
Median per m²
£3,427
HM Land Registry174 sales73 with floor areaLatest sale 7 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Rushley Way, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Rushley Way, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2011 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 6 | £180,000 | £253,800 |
| 2020s | 1 | £240,000 | £245,217 |
The highest yearly median on record for Rushley Way, Reading is £280,000 in 2017; the lowest is £148,500 in 2012. Across the full 11-year record the cash median has moved from £160,000 to £240,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £245,217, so the real change over the whole record is +23.7% — about +2.15% 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: +50.0% in cash against +23.7% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 215 Heron House | 7 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| Flat 228 Heron House | 21 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £246,000 | £246,000 |
| Flat 105 Heron House | 30 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| Flat 101 Heron House | 14 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £273,582 |
| Flat 106 Heron House | 10 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £257,799 |
| Flat 310 Heron House | 9 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £301,233 |
| Flat 115 Heron House | 13 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| Flat 113 Heron House | 29 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| Flat 2 Heron House | 15 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £189,000 | £238,790 |
| Flat 308 Heron House | 27 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £207,500 | £262,164 |
| Flat 119 Heron House | 26 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £269,950 | £341,066 |
| Flat 313 Heron House | 25 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £347,446 |
| Flat 201 Heron House | 28 May 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £273,000 | £344,919 |
| Flat 9 Heron House | 19 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| Flat 203 Heron House | 8 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £205,000 | £265,427 |
| Flat 108 Heron House | 28 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £372,774 |
| Flat 318 Heron House | 19 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £299,858 |
| Flat 219 Heron House | 16 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £290,000 | £394,691 |
| Flat 110 Heron House | 5 Oct 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £239,500 | £325,960 |
| Flat 109 Heron House | 22 Sep 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £374,276 |
| Flat 222 Heron House | 24 Aug 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £306,226 |
| Flat 232 Heron House | 18 Aug 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £408,301 |
| Flat 213 Heron House | 8 Aug 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £381,081 |
| Flat 208 Heron House | 28 Jul 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £284,000 | £386,525 |
| Flat 317 Heron House | 30 Jun 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £284,500 | £387,206 |
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 Rushley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 215 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £143,000 (2011) | £170,000 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.7% |
| FLAT 228 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £190,000 (2013) | £246,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 101 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £178,000 (2011) | £260,000 (2024) | +3.0% | +0.0% |
| FLAT 106 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £174,000 (2011) | £245,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| FLAT 310 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £184,950 (2011) | £260,000 (2022) | +3.1% | +0.6% |
| FLAT 115 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £145,000 (2011) | £210,000 (2022) | +3.4% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 113 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £182,500 (2011) | £240,000 (2021) | +2.8% | +0.8% |
| FLAT 2 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £136,000 (2011) | £189,000 (2021) | +3.3% | +1.4% |
| FLAT 308 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £142,975 (2011) | £207,500 (2021) | +3.8% | +1.8% |
| FLAT 119 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £187,125 (2013) | £269,950 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 201 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £180,000 (2011) | £273,000 (2021) | +4.3% | +2.3% |
| FLAT 9 HERON HOUSE Rushley Way | £136,000 (2011) | £180,000 (2021) | +2.8% | +0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Rushley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 173 | 99.4% | £175,000 | £95,000 – £300,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1 | 0.6% | £88,000 | £88,000 – £88,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Rushley Way, Reading
174 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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 | 174 | 100.0% | £174,500 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 22 | 12.6% | £145,500 |
| Existing home | 152 | 87.4% | £178,975 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.7%. 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 8 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 Rushley 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 £174,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.82% 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 RG2, 186 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 83 violent, 4 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 174,224 residents the 2021 census counted in Reading, that is 1.07 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 Rushley 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.
18 state and independent schools have a RG2 postcode: 14 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bohunt School Wokingham | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,313 |
| Reading Girls' School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 905 |
| Hartland High School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 589 |
| Whitley Park Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 511 |
| Whiteknights Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 453 |
| The Palmer Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 436 |
| Alder Grove Church of England Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 404 |
| The Ridgeway Primary School | Primary | Community school | 362 |
| Farley Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 358 |
| Geoffrey Field Junior School | Primary | Community school | 357 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Earley Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
| Reading Green Park | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Winnersh Triangle Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Reading Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
Section 09
How Rushley Way, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Rushley Way, Reading sits above that national figure — +10.8%.
Within Reading the street ranks 2768 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-20.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,427 per square metre, across 73 of the 174 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 £88,000 to £300,000. 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.
Rushley 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
- Basingstoke Road£218,000 median
- Drake Way£213,000 median
- Elgar Road£180,000 median
- Whitley Wood Road£159,975 median
- Shinfield Road£233,000 median
- Northumberland Avenue£190,000 median
- Valon Road£170,000 median
- Hyde End Road£366,500 median
- Tippett Rise£99,475 median
- Flagstaff Road£408,900 median
- Northcourt Avenue£198,000 median
- Whitley Wood Lane£189,950 median
- Skylark Way£284,475 median
- Hartland Road£147,500 median
- Windermere Road£131,750 median
- Havergate Way£171,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way4 sales
- FLAT 215, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 228, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 106, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 115, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 113, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 9, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 203, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 110, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 309, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 11, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 129, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 233, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 5, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way3 sales
- FLAT 101, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 310, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 308, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 119, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 201, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 108, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 318, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 219, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 109, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
- FLAT 222, HERON HOUSE Rushley Way2 sales
Back to Reading house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Rushley Way, Reading?
The median price paid in Rushley Way, Reading across every sale on the register is £174,500. 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 Rushley Way, Reading?
174 sales are on record for Rushley Way, Reading, the most recent completing on 7 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Rushley Way, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.0% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Rushley Way, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £280,000, 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 Rushley Way, Reading?
£3,427 per square metre, from the 73 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 7 Apr 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, “Rushley 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.