Valon Road, Reading house prices are built from 281 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2000 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £170,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +53.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.4%.
Median price paid
£170,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+53.8%
Change in real terms
+11.4%
HM Land Registry281 salesLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Valon Road, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Valon Road, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 9 | £172,000 | £313,333 |
| 2010s | 6 | £236,475 | £333,430 |
| 2020s | 4 | £303,000 | £309,587 |
The highest yearly median on record for Valon Road, Reading is £380,625 in 2025; the lowest is £126,500 in 2000. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £126,500 to £380,625.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £253,000, so the real change over the whole record is +53.7% — about +1.73% 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: +53.8% in cash against +11.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 84 | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £395,000 | £395,000 |
| 65 | 5 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 11 | 29 Aug 2025 | Detached | £381,250 | £389,538 |
| 91 | 27 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £382,500 | £390,815 |
| 72 | 21 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £342,283 |
| 94 | 6 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 77 | 4 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £368,000 | £376,000 |
| 102 | 28 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £386,000 | £394,391 |
| 69 | 25 Feb 2025 | Detached | £377,500 | £385,707 |
| 92 | 10 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £430,000 | £452,463 |
| 97 | 13 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| 16 | 2 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £305,000 | £329,540 |
| 99 | 22 May 2023 | Detached | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 73 | 27 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £383,563 |
| 98 | 13 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £400,000 | £432,184 |
| 74 | 23 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £340,500 | £394,499 |
| 21 | 27 Oct 2022 | Detached | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 5 | 21 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £340,000 | £393,919 |
| 12 | 29 Sep 2022 | Detached | £335,000 | £388,127 |
| 62 | 31 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 3 | 7 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £335,000 | £388,127 |
| 59 | 29 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £305,000 | £353,369 |
| 104 | 29 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £405,000 | £511,694 |
| 11 | 6 Sep 2021 | Detached | £310,500 | £392,298 |
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 Valon Road, Reading values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 Valon Road | £95,000 (2000) | £400,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 84 Valon Road | £148,950 (2000) | £395,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 65 Valon Road | £128,950 (2001) | £395,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 11 Valon Road | £124,950 (2001) | £381,250 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 91 Valon Road | £165,000 (2008) | £382,500 (2025) | +5.1% | +2.0% |
| 72 Valon Road | £128,950 (2000) | £335,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
| 94 Valon Road | £138,950 (2001) | £380,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 77 Valon Road | £146,950 (2000) | £368,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +1.0% |
| 102 Valon Road | £102,000 (2001) | £386,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 69 Valon Road | £130,500 (2001) | £377,500 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 92 Valon Road | £143,950 (2000) | £430,000 (2024) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
| 97 Valon Road | £143,950 (2001) | £365,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Valon Road, 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 | 126 | 44.8% | £167,500 | £74,000 – £400,000 |
| Semi-detached | 112 | 39.9% | £175,000 | £95,000 – £430,000 |
| Detached | 43 | 15.3% | £154,000 | £102,000 – £381,250 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Valon Road, Reading
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 281 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 | 281 | 100.0% | £170,000 |
| New build | 80 | 28.5% | £127,725 |
| Existing home | 201 | 71.5% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -36.1%. 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 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 Valon Road, 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 £170,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.10% 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 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 Valon Road, 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 Valon Road, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Valon Road, Reading sits above that national figure — +7.9%.
Within Reading the street ranks 2810 of 3510 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £220,000 (-22.7%).
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 £74,000 to £430,000. 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.
Valon Road, 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
- 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
- Rushley Way£174,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 5 Valon Road7 sales
- 102 Valon Road6 sales
- 74 Valon Road6 sales
- 114 Valon Road5 sales
- 65 Valon Road5 sales
- 77 Valon Road5 sales
- 96 Valon Road5 sales
- 83 Valon Road5 sales
- 72 Valon Road4 sales
- 94 Valon Road4 sales
- 92 Valon Road4 sales
- 16 Valon Road4 sales
- 73 Valon Road4 sales
- 98 Valon Road4 sales
- 62 Valon Road4 sales
- 3 Valon Road4 sales
- 46 Valon Road4 sales
- 71 Valon Road4 sales
- 101 Valon Road4 sales
- 67 Valon Road4 sales
- 63 Valon Road4 sales
- 78 Valon Road4 sales
- 81 Valon Road4 sales
- 25 Valon Road4 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Valon Road, Reading?
The median price paid in Valon Road, Reading across every sale on the register is £170,000. 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 Valon Road, Reading?
281 sales are on record for Valon Road, Reading, the most recent completing on 30 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Valon Road, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +53.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Valon Road, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £380,625, 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 Valon Road, 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 30 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, “Valon Road, 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.