Westwood Road, Reading house prices are built from 174 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 20 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £320,000. Across the 11 years from 2014 to 2025 the median moved +45.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.8%.
Median price paid
£320,000
Change in cash, 2014–2025
+45.8%
Change in real terms
+3.8%
HM Land Registry174 salesLatest sale 20 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Westwood Road, Reading prices moved
The chart tracks the median Westwood Road, Reading house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 3 | £128,950 | £286,330 |
| 2000s | 7 | £267,500 | £487,306 |
| 2010s | 4 | £380,000 | £535,800 |
| 2020s | 3 | £553,950 | £565,992 |
The highest yearly median on record for Westwood Road, Reading is £610,000 in 2022; the lowest is £107,500 in 1997. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £128,950 to £553,950.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £279,722, so the real change over the whole record is +102.3% — about +2.46% 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: +45.8% in cash against +3.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 143 | 20 Feb 2026 | Semi-detached | £675,000 | £675,000 |
| 40b | 16 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £345,000 | £345,000 |
| 174 | 21 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £535,000 | £546,630 |
| 8 | 26 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 43 | 11 Sep 2025 | Detached | £595,000 | £607,935 |
| 69 | 22 Aug 2025 | Detached | £765,000 | £781,630 |
| 30 | 15 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £510,870 |
| 140 | 17 Mar 2025 | Detached | £605,000 | £618,152 |
| 149 | 17 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 89 | 14 Mar 2025 | Detached | £557,900 | £570,028 |
| 45 | 16 Dec 2024 | Detached | £520,000 | £547,164 |
| 139 | 23 Aug 2024 | Detached | £575,000 | £605,037 |
| 159 | 6 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £578,731 |
| 10 | 31 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £342,500 | £360,392 |
| 12 | 23 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 65 | 18 May 2022 | Detached | £850,000 | £984,799 |
| 128d | 18 Mar 2022 | Detached | £630,000 | £729,910 |
| 96 | 4 Feb 2022 | Detached | £610,000 | £706,738 |
| 52 | 10 Jan 2022 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 40b | 17 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 20 | 15 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £435,000 | £549,597 |
| 128b | 14 Dec 2020 | Detached | £482,500 | £624,725 |
| 7 | 17 Sep 2020 | Detached | £470,000 | £608,540 |
| 136 | 2 Sep 2020 | Detached | £750,000 | £971,074 |
| 101 | 2 Sep 2020 | Detached | £390,000 | £504,959 |
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 Westwood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 143 Westwood Road | £467,500 (2016) | £675,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 40B Westwood Road | £195,000 (2005) | £345,000 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 8 Westwood Road | £57,000 (2001) | £295,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.2% |
| 43 Westwood Road | £174,000 (1999) | £595,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 69 Westwood Road | £225,000 (1999) | £765,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 30 Westwood Road | £87,500 (1997) | £500,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 149 Westwood Road | £395,000 (2016) | £550,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.2% |
| 139 Westwood Road | £360,000 (2007) | £575,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 159 Westwood Road | £145,000 (1999) | £550,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 12 Westwood Road | £74,500 (1997) | £300,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.2% |
| 65 Westwood Road | £260,000 (2001) | £850,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 128D Westwood Road | £380,000 (2014) | £630,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Westwood 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 | 94 | 54.0% | £360,000 | £117,000 – £850,000 |
| Semi-detached | 55 | 31.6% | £295,000 | £74,500 – £675,000 |
| Terraced | 20 | 11.5% | £224,950 | £57,000 – £535,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 2.9% | £127,600 | £65,000 – £225,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Westwood Road, Reading
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 170 freehold — 2.3% 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 £162,500 and the median freehold sale £326,700 — a gap of +101.0%. 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 | 4 | 2.3% | £162,500 |
| Freehold | 170 | 97.7% | £326,700 |
| New build | 5 | 2.9% | £207,000 |
| Existing home | 169 | 97.1% | £325,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -36.3%. 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 Westwood 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 £320,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 5.90% 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 RG31, 108 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 50 violent, 4 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 8 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times quieter.
Against the 174,224 residents the 2021 census counted in Reading, that is 0.62 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 Westwood 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.
13 state and independent schools have a RG31 postcode: 11 primary, 2 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Heath School | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,682 |
| Denefield School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,171 |
| Birch Copse Primary School | Primary | Community school | 420 |
| Park Lane Primary School | Primary | Community school | 388 |
| Springfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 330 |
| St Paul's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 279 |
| Calcot Junior School | Primary | Community school | 264 |
| Westwood Farm Junior School | Primary | Community school | 235 |
| Calcot Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 217 |
| Downsway Primary School | Primary | Community school | 213 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Tilehurst Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Theale Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Reading West Rail Station | Rail | 3.9 km |
| Pangbourne Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
Section 09
How Westwood Road, Reading compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Westwood 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 £57,000 to £850,000. 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.
Westwood 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
- Overdown Road£250,000 median
- Kentwood Hill£208,000 median
- Park Lane£228,475 median
- Armour Hill£148,000 median
- School Road£240,000 median
- City Road£215,000 median
- Pegasus Court£179,975 median
- Fairford Road£237,500 median
- Armour Road£203,250 median
- Cotswold Way£230,000 median
- Lower Elmstone Drive£140,250 median
- Starlings Drive£153,500 median
- Sweet Briar Drive£140,000 median
- Pemberton Gardens£185,000 median
- Long Lane£418,750 median
- Devonshire Gardens£196,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 30 Westwood Road5 sales
- 40B Westwood Road4 sales
- 93 Westwood Road4 sales
- 8 Westwood Road3 sales
- 43 Westwood Road3 sales
- 69 Westwood Road3 sales
- 139 Westwood Road3 sales
- 12 Westwood Road3 sales
- 65 Westwood Road3 sales
- 20 Westwood Road3 sales
- 128B Westwood Road3 sales
- 7 Westwood Road3 sales
- 18 Westwood Road3 sales
- 42 Westwood Road3 sales
- 19 Westwood Road3 sales
- 41 Westwood Road3 sales
- 44 Westwood Road3 sales
- 40C Westwood Road3 sales
- 79 Westwood Road3 sales
- 59 Westwood Road3 sales
- 98 Westwood Road3 sales
- 142 Westwood Road3 sales
- 170 Westwood Road3 sales
- 143 Westwood Road2 sales
Back to Reading house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Westwood Road, Reading?
The median price paid in Westwood 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 Westwood Road, Reading?
174 sales are on record for Westwood Road, Reading, the most recent completing on 20 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Westwood Road, Reading house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +45.8% between 2014 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Westwood Road, Reading house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £610,000, set in 2022. 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 Westwood 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 20 Feb 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, “Westwood 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.