Victoria Road, Reading house prices are built from 407 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +50.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.8%.
Median price paid
£320,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+50.5%
Change in real terms
+7.8%
HM Land Registry407 salesLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Victoria Road, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Victoria Road, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | £130,025 | £288,717 |
| 2000s | 9 | £276,498 | £503,697 |
| 2010s | 10 | £405,000 | £571,050 |
| 2020s | 7 | £596,000 | £608,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Victoria Road, Reading is £750,000 in 2025; the lowest is £95,225 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £130,025 to £700,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £288,717, so the real change over the whole record is +142.5% — about +2.90% 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: +50.5% in cash against +7.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £880,000 | £880,000 |
| 180 | 9 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| 129 | 30 Jan 2026 | Detached | £700,000 | £700,000 |
| 16 | 15 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £900,000 | £900,000 |
| 67a | 9 Jan 2026 | Detached | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 80 | 9 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £815,000 | £832,717 |
| 68 | 10 Oct 2025 | Detached | £952,000 | £972,696 |
| 21 | 8 Oct 2025 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,226,087 |
| 164 | 4 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £810,000 | £827,609 |
| 144 | 1 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £750,000 | £766,304 |
| 149 | 1 Aug 2025 | Detached | £645,000 | £659,022 |
| 121 | 8 May 2025 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 62 | 22 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £640,000 | £653,913 |
| 94 | 25 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| 51 | 19 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £587,500 | £618,190 |
| 24 | 9 Dec 2024 | Detached | £875,000 | £920,709 |
| 67 | 29 Oct 2024 | Detached | £700,000 | £736,567 |
| 10a | 9 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £489,291 |
| 80 | 6 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £825,000 | £868,097 |
| 3 | 14 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £435,000 | £457,724 |
| 49 | 9 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £552,425 |
| 119 | 10 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 171 | 19 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £960,000 | £1,010,149 |
| 46a | 13 Dec 2023 | Detached | £692,000 | £747,678 |
| 63 | 1 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £565,000 | £610,460 |
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 Victoria 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 Victoria Road | £465,000 (2018) | £880,000 (2026) | +8.3% | +4.5% |
| 180 Victoria Road | £470,000 (2016) | £575,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -1.3% |
| 129 Victoria Road | £191,000 (1999) | £700,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 16 Victoria Road | £500,000 (2006) | £900,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 67A Victoria Road | £350,000 (2022) | £375,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.9% |
| 80 Victoria Road | £285,000 (2007) | £815,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +2.9% |
| 68 Victoria Road | £325,000 (2004) | £952,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 164 Victoria Road | £187,000 (1997) | £810,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 144 Victoria Road | £470,000 (2007) | £750,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| 121 Victoria Road | £265,000 (2007) | £550,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 62 Victoria Road | £230,000 (2000) | £640,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 94 Victoria Road | £192,000 (2000) | £650,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Victoria 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 193 | 47.4% | £310,000 | £59,950 – £960,000 |
| Detached | 125 | 30.7% | £365,000 | £89,000 – £1,640,000 |
| Terraced | 79 | 19.4% | £297,000 | £45,000 – £750,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 10 | 2.5% | £165,000 | £51,950 – £260,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Victoria Road, Reading
10 of the sales on record are leasehold and 397 freehold — 2.5% 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 £165,000 and the median freehold sale £325,000 — a gap of +97.0%. 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 | 10 | 2.5% | £165,000 |
| Freehold | 397 | 97.5% | £325,000 |
| New build | 7 | 1.7% | £192,950 |
| Existing home | 400 | 98.3% | £325,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -40.6%. 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 14 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 Victoria Road, Reading
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 680 | 1.1% |
| B | 9,410 | 15.7% |
| C | 23,264 | 38.9% |
| D | 20,605 | 34.5% |
| E | 4,841 | 8.1% |
| F | 797 | 1.3% |
| G | 173 | 0.3% |
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 £320,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.52% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Victoria Road, Reading
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Piggott School | All-through | Academy converter | 1,945 |
| The Colleton Primary School | Primary | Community school | 293 |
| Polehampton Church of England Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 232 |
| Polehampton Church of England Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 148 |
| Waltham St Lawrence Primary School | Primary | Community school | 148 |
| St Nicholas Church of England Primary, Hurst | Primary | Academy converter | 138 |
| Knowl Hill Church of England Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 129 |
| Crazies Hill Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 84 |
| Robert Piggott CofE Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Robert Piggott CofE Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Twyford Rail Station | Rail | 1.0 km |
| Wargrave Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Shiplake Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
| Winnersh Triangle Rail Station | Rail | 5.7 km |
Section 09
How Victoria Road, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Victoria Road, Reading sits above that national figure — +103.2%.
Within Reading the street ranks 1135 of 3510 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £220,000 (+45.5%).
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 £45,000 to £1,640,000. 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.
Victoria Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£300,000 median
- Broad Hinton£200,000 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
- Silk Lane£184,975 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
- 8 Victoria Road7 sales
- 10 Victoria Road7 sales
- 20 Victoria Road7 sales
- 68 Victoria Road6 sales
- 24 Victoria Road6 sales
- 98 Victoria Road6 sales
- 18 Victoria Road6 sales
- 67 Victoria Road5 sales
- 52 Victoria Road5 sales
- 61 Victoria Road5 sales
- 26 Victoria Road5 sales
- 22 Victoria Road5 sales
- 27 Victoria Road5 sales
- 132 Victoria Road5 sales
- 174 Victoria Road5 sales
- 80 Victoria Road4 sales
- 144 Victoria Road4 sales
- 94 Victoria Road4 sales
- 119 Victoria Road4 sales
- 63 Victoria Road4 sales
- 102 Victoria Road4 sales
- 96 Victoria Road4 sales
- 167 Victoria Road4 sales
- 114 Victoria Road4 sales
Back to Reading house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Victoria Road, Reading?
The median price paid in Victoria Road, Reading across every sale on the register is £320,000. 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 Victoria Road, Reading?
407 sales are on record for Victoria 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 Victoria Road, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +50.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Victoria Road, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £750,000, 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 Victoria 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, “Victoria 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.