Thirlmere Avenue, Reading house prices are built from 495 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £156,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +46.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +6.5%.
Median price paid
£156,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+46.9%
Change in real terms
+6.5%
HM Land Registry495 salesLatest sale 26 May 2026
Section 01
How Thirlmere Avenue, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Thirlmere Avenue, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £59,950 | £133,117 |
| 2000s | 10 | £147,000 | £267,791 |
| 2010s | 10 | £212,475 | £299,590 |
| 2020s | 6 | £315,000 | £321,848 |
The highest yearly median on record for Thirlmere Avenue, Reading is £332,000 in 2025; the lowest is £51,500 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £53,000 to £332,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,685, so the real change over the whole record is +188.2% — about +3.59% 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: +46.9% in cash against +6.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| 248 | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £330,000 | £330,000 |
| 199 | 16 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 96 | 8 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £340,500 | £340,500 |
| 104 | 7 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 44 | 23 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 78b | 29 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £376,250 | £384,429 |
| 11 | 8 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £357,500 | £365,272 |
| 114 | 21 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 30 | 1 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 63 | 13 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| 164 | 9 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 179 | 21 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £340,000 | £347,391 |
| 102 | 21 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £322,000 | £329,000 |
| 227 | 14 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 240 | 31 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £332,000 | £339,217 |
| 223 | 24 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 244 | 24 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £317,000 | £333,560 |
| 67 | 23 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 185 | 16 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £318,000 | £334,612 |
| 156 | 24 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
| 123 | 12 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £317,000 | £333,560 |
| 128 | 26 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £327,000 | £344,082 |
| 254 | 18 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £330,000 | £347,239 |
| 205 | 22 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £315,000 | £331,455 |
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 Thirlmere Avenue, Reading values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 Thirlmere Avenue | £76,000 (1998) | £335,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 248 Thirlmere Avenue | £269,950 (2018) | £330,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -1.1% |
| 199 Thirlmere Avenue | £62,950 (1998) | £340,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 104 Thirlmere Avenue | £285,000 (2016) | £340,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.5% |
| 11 Thirlmere Avenue | £84,000 (1998) | £357,500 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 114 Thirlmere Avenue | £55,000 (1999) | £330,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 30 Thirlmere Avenue | £33,000 (1995) | £330,000 (2025) | +8.0% | +5.2% |
| 63 Thirlmere Avenue | £52,000 (1997) | £435,000 (2025) | +7.9% | +5.1% |
| 164 Thirlmere Avenue | £51,500 (1995) | £325,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 102 Thirlmere Avenue | £46,000 (1998) | £322,000 (2025) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 179 Thirlmere Avenue | £152,000 (2004) | £340,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 227 Thirlmere Avenue | £265,000 (2017) | £300,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -2.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Thirlmere Avenue, 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 | 337 | 68.1% | £158,000 | £22,700 – £435,000 |
| Semi-detached | 151 | 30.5% | £154,000 | £47,500 – £376,250 |
| Detached | 5 | 1.0% | £113,000 | £60,000 – £165,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 2 | 0.4% | £279,950 | £279,950 – £284,950 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Thirlmere Avenue, Reading
8 of the sales on record are leasehold and 487 freehold — 1.6% 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 £209,000 and the median freehold sale £156,000 — a gap of -25.4%. 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 | 8 | 1.6% | £209,000 |
| Freehold | 487 | 98.4% | £156,000 |
| New build | 4 | 0.8% | £40,975 |
| Existing home | 491 | 99.2% | £157,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -74.1%. 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 13 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 Thirlmere Avenue, 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 £156,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.10% 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 RG30, 391 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 180 violent, 7 burglary, 16 vehicle-related and 46 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.
Against the 174,224 residents the 2021 census counted in Reading, that is 2.24 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 Thirlmere Avenue, 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 RG30 postcode: 11 primary, 3 secondary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| King's Academy Prospect | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,157 |
| Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,082 |
| The WREN School | Secondary | Free schools | 931 |
| Southcote Primary School | Primary | Community school | 528 |
| Battle Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 456 |
| Wilson Primary School | Primary | Community school | 452 |
| English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 408 |
| Churchend Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 401 |
| St Michael's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 362 |
| Manor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 294 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Reading West Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Tilehurst Rail Station | Rail | 2.5 km |
| Reading Green Park | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Reading Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
Section 09
How Thirlmere Avenue, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Thirlmere Avenue, Reading sits below that national figure — -1.0%.
Within Reading the street ranks 3028 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-29.1%).
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 £22,700 to £435,000. 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.
Thirlmere Avenue, 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
- Southcote Road£123,000 median
- Rodway Road£159,475 median
- Tilehurst Road£183,375 median
- Elm Park£155,975 median
- Belmont Road£146,725 median
- Connaught Road£155,000 median
- Rowe Court£96,000 median
- Beecham Road£170,000 median
- Grovelands Road£197,950 median
- Norcot Road£185,000 median
- Southcote Lane£200,950 median
- Westcote Road£133,750 median
- Cranbury Road£149,350 median
- Waverley Road£230,000 median
- Elm Park Road£150,000 median
- Sherwood Street£145,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 199 Thirlmere Avenue7 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Thirlmere Avenue, Reading?
The median price paid in Thirlmere Avenue, Reading across every sale on the register is £156,000. 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 Thirlmere Avenue, Reading?
495 sales are on record for Thirlmere Avenue, Reading, the most recent completing on 26 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Thirlmere Avenue, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +46.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +6.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Thirlmere Avenue, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £332,000, 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 Thirlmere Avenue, 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 26 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, “Thirlmere Avenue, 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.