Skylark Way, Reading house prices are built from 198 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 21 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £284,475. Across the 12 years from 2010 to 2022 the median moved +48.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.7%.
Median price paid
£284,475
Change in cash, 2010–2022
+48.4%
Change in real terms
+7.7%
HM Land Registry198 salesLatest sale 21 May 2026
Section 01
How Skylark Way, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Skylark Way, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 to 2022. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | £256,920 | £468,033 |
| 2010s | 6 | £283,998 | £400,436 |
| 2020s | 3 | £382,500 | £390,815 |
The highest yearly median on record for Skylark Way, Reading is £385,750 in 2021; the lowest is £214,950 in 2004. Across the full 20-year record the cash median has moved from £292,475 to £326,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £552,801, so the real change over the whole record is -31.6% — about -1.98% 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: +48.4% in cash against +7.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 10 | 31 Mar 2026 | Detached | £422,000 | £422,000 |
| 91 | 12 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £257,500 | £263,098 |
| 129 | 3 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 45 | 23 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 143 | 17 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 49 | 15 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £335,000 | £352,500 |
| 40 | 7 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £337,500 | £355,131 |
| 21 | 1 May 2024 | Detached | £555,000 | £583,993 |
| 27 | 12 Dec 2023 | Detached | £310,000 | £334,943 |
| 17 | 28 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £428,000 | £495,875 |
| 47 | 11 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £326,500 | £378,279 |
| 33 | 21 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £435,000 | £503,985 |
| 127 | 14 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £315,000 | £364,955 |
| 45 | 31 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £307,000 | £355,686 |
| 51 | 25 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £306,000 | £386,613 |
| 111 | 28 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 50 | 19 Aug 2021 | Detached | £580,000 | £732,796 |
| 8 | 12 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £524,328 |
| 117 | 30 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £389,000 | £491,478 |
| 43 | 30 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £297,500 | £375,874 |
| 16 | 11 Jun 2021 | Detached | £545,000 | £688,575 |
| 11 | 21 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £382,500 | £483,266 |
| 30 | 16 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £355,000 | £448,522 |
| 41 | 1 Apr 2021 | Detached | £445,000 | £562,231 |
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 Skylark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 Skylark Way | £267,000 (2005) | £435,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 10 Skylark Way | £210,000 (2005) | £422,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 91 Skylark Way | £212,000 (2015) | £257,500 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.3% |
| 129 Skylark Way | £190,000 (2004) | £350,000 (2025) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 45 Skylark Way | £199,950 (2004) | £350,000 (2025) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 143 Skylark Way | £207,500 (2005) | £300,000 (2024) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| 49 Skylark Way | £199,950 (2004) | £335,000 (2024) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 40 Skylark Way | £214,950 (2004) | £337,500 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.6% |
| 21 Skylark Way | £330,000 (2003) | £555,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 27 Skylark Way | £195,000 (2004) | £310,000 (2023) | +2.5% | -0.4% |
| 17 Skylark Way | £299,950 (2003) | £428,000 (2022) | +1.9% | -0.7% |
| 47 Skylark Way | £199,950 (2004) | £326,500 (2022) | +2.8% | +0.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Skylark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 111 | 56.1% | £275,000 | £104,446 – £435,000 |
| Detached | 52 | 26.3% | £330,000 | £195,000 – £592,500 |
| Semi-detached | 28 | 14.1% | £285,000 | £170,000 – £437,500 |
| Flat or maisonette | 7 | 3.5% | £212,000 | £180,992 – £257,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Skylark Way, Reading
3 of the sales on record are leasehold and 195 freehold — 1.5% 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 £227,500 and the median freehold sale £284,950 — a gap of +25.3%. 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 | 3 | 1.5% | £227,500 |
| Freehold | 195 | 98.5% | £284,950 |
| New build | 73 | 36.9% | £269,950 |
| Existing home | 125 | 63.1% | £299,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.0%. 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 4 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 Skylark 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 £284,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.64% 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 Skylark 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 Skylark Way, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Skylark Way, Reading sits above that national figure — +80.6%.
Within Reading the street ranks 1388 of 3510 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £220,000 (+29.3%).
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 £104,446 to £592,500. 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.
Skylark 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
- Hartland Road£147,500 median
- Windermere Road£131,750 median
- Havergate Way£171,500 median
- Rushley Way£174,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 45 Skylark Way6 sales
- 49 Skylark Way5 sales
- 7 Skylark Way5 sales
- 6 Skylark Way5 sales
- 36 Skylark Way4 sales
- 43 Skylark Way4 sales
- 117 Skylark Way4 sales
- 11 Skylark Way4 sales
- 41 Skylark Way4 sales
- 32 Skylark Way4 sales
- 115 Skylark Way4 sales
- 23 Skylark Way4 sales
- 22 Skylark Way4 sales
- 5 Skylark Way4 sales
- 131 Skylark Way4 sales
- 10 Skylark Way3 sales
- 91 Skylark Way3 sales
- 129 Skylark Way3 sales
- 21 Skylark Way3 sales
- 33 Skylark Way3 sales
- 51 Skylark Way3 sales
- 111 Skylark Way3 sales
- 8 Skylark Way3 sales
- 16 Skylark Way3 sales
Back to Reading house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Skylark Way, Reading?
The median price paid in Skylark Way, Reading across every sale on the register is £284,475. 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 Skylark Way, Reading?
198 sales are on record for Skylark Way, Reading, the most recent completing on 21 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Skylark Way, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.4% between 2010 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Skylark Way, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £385,750, set in 2021. 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 Skylark Way, 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 21 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, “Skylark 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.