Silk Lane, Reading house prices

Silk Lane, Reading house prices are built from 164 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 26 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £184,975. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +27.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.3%.

HM Land Registry164 sales5 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Sep 2025

The chart tracks the median Silk Lane, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 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 Silk Lane, Reading is £307,000 in 2025; the lowest is £123,500 in 1999. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £123,500 to £307,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £251,640, so the real change over the whole record is +24.7% — about +0.85% 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: +27.9% in cash against -7.3% 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 Silk Lane, 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. Silk Lane, Reading is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

164 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -26.6%. 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 2 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 Bracknell Forest, 55.8% of 59,770 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 1.6% 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 Bracknell Forest at £1,471 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,073 for a one-bedroom home and £1,652 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £184,975 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.54% 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 RG10, 33 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 9 violent, 4 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.1 times quieter.

Against the 124,607 residents the 2021 census counted in Bracknell Forest, that is 0.26 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 124,607 residents in Bracknell Forest across 50,245 households. 68.5% of those households own their home and 31.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

10 state and independent schools have a RG10 postcode: 9 primary, 1 all-through. 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. Silk Lane, Reading sits above that national figure — +17.4%.

Within Reading the street ranks 2623 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-15.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,310 per square metre, across 5 of the 164 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 £95,000 to £485,000. 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.

Silk Lane, Reading sits in Bracknell Forest, in the South East.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bracknell Forest at 9.1 times median local earnings of £44,883 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

• High Street£300,000 median
• Broad Hinton£200,000 median
• Victoria Road£320,000 median
• East Park Farm Drive£267,975 median
• Henley Road£275,000 median
• Wargrave Road£430,000 median
• Church Street£198,000 median
• Waltham Road£186,975 median
• The Hawthorns£325,000 median
• Hilltop Road£314,500 median
• Brook Street£219,225 median
• New Road£406,250 median
• Hurst Park Road£282,475 median
• Colleton Drive£229,950 median
• Cotterell Gardens£205,000 median
• Broadwater Road£355,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 8, OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane5 sales
• 15, WEIR POOL COURT Silk Lane5 sales
• FLAT 16, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane5 sales
• FLAT 17, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane5 sales
• FLAT 13, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane5 sales
• FLAT 2, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane4 sales
• FLAT 15, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane4 sales
• 2, WEIR POOL COURT Silk Lane4 sales
• FLAT 35, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane4 sales
• FLAT 37, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane4 sales
• FLAT 29, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane4 sales
• FLAT 40, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 32, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 5, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 31, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 20, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 22, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 41, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 1, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 21, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 34, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 4, OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 43, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales
• FLAT 9, the OLD SILK MILL Silk Lane3 sales

Back to Reading house prices.

What is the average house price in Silk Lane, Reading?

The median price paid in Silk Lane, Reading across every sale on the register is £184,975. 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 Silk Lane, Reading?

164 sales are on record for Silk Lane, Reading, the most recent completing on 26 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Silk Lane, Reading house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +27.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Silk Lane, Reading house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £307,000, set in 2025. 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 Silk Lane, Reading?

£4,310 per square metre, from the 5 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 26 Sep 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, “Silk Lane, 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.