Wallingford Road, Reading house prices are built from 257 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £325,000. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +39.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.3%.
Median price paid
£325,000
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+39.5%
Change in real terms
+2.3%
HM Land Registry257 salesLatest sale 19 May 2026
Section 01
How Wallingford Road, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Wallingford Road, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £99,250 | £220,382 |
| 2000s | 10 | £295,000 | £537,403 |
| 2010s | 10 | £399,000 | £562,590 |
| 2020s | 3 | £550,000 | £561,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Wallingford Road, Reading is £795,000 in 2017; the lowest is £85,750 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £99,250 to £558,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £220,382, so the real change over the whole record is +166.4% — about +3.44% 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: +39.5% in cash against +2.3% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Chestnut Cottages | 19 May 2026 | Terraced | £670,000 | £670,000 |
| 5 Chestnut Cottages | 23 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| Flat 5 32 | 12 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 15 | 30 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £365,000 | £365,000 |
| 14 | 14 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 9 Chestnut Cottages | 31 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £545,000 | £556,848 |
| 45 | 17 Mar 2025 | Detached | £610,000 | £623,261 |
| 42 | 12 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £558,000 | £587,149 |
| 5 | 10 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £457,500 | £481,399 |
| 6 Lardon Cottages | 13 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £575,000 | £605,037 |
| 4 Glebe Cottages | 24 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £431,418 |
| 3 Chestnut Cottages | 12 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £640,000 | £673,433 |
| 8 Pound Cottages | 7 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £526,119 |
| 75 | 19 Jan 2024 | Detached | £625,000 | £657,649 |
| 47 | 18 Oct 2023 | Detached | £1,080,000 | £1,166,897 |
| 2 Lardon Cottages | 6 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £498,000 | £538,069 |
| 3 Chestnut Cottages | 27 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| Little Down | 7 Oct 2022 | Detached | £899,950 | £1,042,670 |
| 19 | 26 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £365,000 | £422,884 |
| Tierra Mia | 12 Aug 2022 | Detached | £1,315,000 | £1,523,541 |
| 5 | 21 Jul 2022 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £492,399 |
| 2 Chestnut Cottages | 13 May 2022 | Terraced | £550,000 | £637,223 |
| 44a | 11 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £565,000 | £654,601 |
| 40 | 10 Mar 2022 | Detached | £379,950 | £440,205 |
| 2 Stable Cottage | 24 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £551,500 | £696,788 |
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 Wallingford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 CHESTNUT COTTAGES Wallingford Road | £110,000 (1997) | £670,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 5 CHESTNUT COTTAGES Wallingford Road | £200,000 (2002) | £575,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 5 32 Wallingford Road | £350,000 (2008) | £400,000 (2026) | +0.7% | -2.1% |
| 15 Wallingford Road | £125,000 (1998) | £365,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.2% |
| 14 Wallingford Road | £87,500 (1997) | £325,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 9 CHESTNUT COTTAGES Wallingford Road | £110,000 (1995) | £545,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 45 Wallingford Road | £295,000 (2004) | £610,000 (2025) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
| 42 Wallingford Road | £320,000 (2003) | £558,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
| 5 Wallingford Road | £388,000 (2003) | £457,500 (2024) | +0.8% | -2.0% |
| 4 GLEBE COTTAGES Wallingford Road | £128,000 (1997) | £410,000 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 3 CHESTNUT COTTAGES Wallingford Road | £425,000 (2023) | £640,000 (2024) | +50.6% | +46.7% |
| 8 POUND COTTAGES Wallingford Road | £232,500 (2002) | £500,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wallingford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 91 | 35.4% | £480,000 | £82,500 – £1,330,000 |
| Terraced | 70 | 27.2% | £325,000 | £91,000 – £670,000 |
| Semi-detached | 65 | 25.3% | £249,950 | £60,000 – £795,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 31 | 12.1% | £235,000 | £79,000 – £400,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Wallingford Road, Reading
35 of the sales on record are leasehold and 222 freehold — 13.6% 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 £236,000 and the median freehold sale £345,000 — a gap of +46.2%. 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 | 35 | 13.6% | £236,000 |
| Freehold | 222 | 86.4% | £345,000 |
| New build | 20 | 7.8% | £238,750 |
| Existing home | 237 | 92.2% | £325,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -26.5%. 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.
Section 09
How Wallingford Road, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wallingford Road, Reading sits above that national figure — +106.3%.
Within Reading the street ranks 1107 of 3510 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £220,000 (+47.7%).
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 £60,000 to £1,330,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- The Street£400,000 median
- Church Lane£359,000 median
- Hardwick Road£309,000 median
- Horseshoe Road£332,750 median
- Wayside Green£208,750 median
- Elvendon Road£385,000 median
- Kennedy Drive£202,000 median
- Cleeve Road£279,750 median
- Shooters Hill£290,000 median
- Manor Road£345,000 median
- Whitehouse Road£315,000 median
- Beech Road£457,500 median
- Bethesda Street£756,000 median
- Bourne Road£228,725 median
- Aldworth Road£595,000 median
- Wintringham Way£300,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 2, CHESTNUT COTTAGES Wallingford Road6 sales
- 15 Wallingford Road6 sales
- 17 Wallingford Road6 sales
- 5 Wallingford Road5 sales
- 44A Wallingford Road5 sales
- 3, PLACE MANOR COTTAGES Wallingford Road5 sales
- 40C Wallingford Road5 sales
- 7, CHESTNUT COTTAGES Wallingford Road5 sales
- 5, CHESTNUT COTTAGES Wallingford Road4 sales
- FLAT 5, 32 Wallingford Road4 sales
- 14 Wallingford Road4 sales
- 42 Wallingford Road4 sales
- 19 Wallingford Road4 sales
- 7, POUND COTTAGES Wallingford Road4 sales
- 1 Wallingford Road4 sales
- 46 Wallingford Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 32 Wallingford Road4 sales
- 4 Wallingford Road4 sales
- 4, GLEBE COTTAGES Wallingford Road3 sales
- 8, POUND COTTAGES Wallingford Road3 sales
- 40 Wallingford Road3 sales
- 71 Wallingford Road3 sales
- STATION HOUSE Wallingford Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, 30 Wallingford Road3 sales
Back to Reading house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Wallingford Road, Reading?
The median price paid in Wallingford Road, Reading across every sale on the register is £325,000. 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 Wallingford Road, Reading?
257 sales are on record for Wallingford Road, Reading, the most recent completing on 19 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Wallingford Road, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +39.5% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Wallingford Road, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £795,000, set in 2017. 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 Wallingford 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 19 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, “Wallingford 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.