Wokingham house prices

Wokingham house prices are built from 35,786 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £285,998. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +3.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -25.9%.

HM Land Registry35,786 sales5,987 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Wokingham 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Wokingham is £525,000 in 2025; the lowest is £94,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £94,000 to £450,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £208,724, so the real change over the whole record is +115.6% — about +2.51% 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: +3.4% in cash against -25.9% 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.

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.

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 Wokingham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wokingham is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 7,263 certificates cover Wokingham, and their median floor area is 89 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +17.1%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

5,523 of the sales on record are leasehold and 30,263 freehold — 15.4% 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 £210,000 and the median freehold sale £315,000 — a gap of +50.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +30.5%. 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 1,445 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.

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.

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 £285,998 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.17% 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 RG40, 74 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 26 violent, 1 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 6 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times quieter.

Against the 124,607 residents the 2021 census counted in Bracknell Forest, that is 0.59 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.

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.

13 state and independent schools have a RG40 postcode: 12 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wokingham sits above that national figure — +81.6%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,503 per square metre, across 5,987 of the 35,786 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £6,750 to £6,100,000. 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.

Wokingham 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.

Streets in Wokingham

• Reading Road1,037 sales
• Nine Mile Ride722 sales
• Finchampstead Road575 sales
• Barkham Road435 sales
• London Road341 sales
• Acorn Drive302 sales
• Montague Close296 sales
• Mccarthy Way261 sales
• Ashville Way241 sales
• Woodward Close226 sales
• Bathurst Road220 sales
• Wiltshire Road212 sales
• Oxford Road204 sales
• Bearwood Road192 sales
• Foxcote182 sales
• Kennet Court180 sales
• Clifton Road179 sales
• Gipsy Lane173 sales
• Easthampstead Road171 sales
• William Heelas Way171 sales
• Jersey Drive168 sales
• Outfield Crescent168 sales
• Waterloo Road167 sales
• St Pauls Gate166 sales
• Barkham Ride165 sales
• Evendons Lane159 sales
• Langborough Road155 sales
• Oakey Drive155 sales
• Rances Lane155 sales
• Rectory Road154 sales
• Roycroft Lane153 sales
• Laburnum Road150 sales
• Vermont Woods148 sales
• Kiln Ride144 sales
• Havelock Road140 sales
• Oak Avenue134 sales
• Rose Street134 sales
• Nash Grove Lane132 sales
• Tamar Way131 sales
• Wescott Road131 sales
• Dowles Green128 sales
• Arbor Lane127 sales
• Carina Drive127 sales
• Wellington Road125 sales
• Blagrove Drive123 sales
• Woosehill Lane123 sales
• Heath Ride121 sales
• Jerrymoor Hill121 sales
• Arnett Avenue120 sales
• Kesteven Way120 sales
• Bedfordshire Way119 sales
• Swallow Way117 sales
• Charwood Road116 sales
• Bean Oak Road115 sales
• Rosebay112 sales
• Sandstone Close112 sales
• All Saints Close108 sales
• Shefford Crescent107 sales
• Twycross Road105 sales
• Bishops Drive104 sales

Postcode districts covering Wokingham

• RG40£299,995 median
• RG41£275,000 median

What is the average house price in Wokingham?

The median price paid in Wokingham across every sale on the register is £285,998. 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 Wokingham?

35,786 sales are on record for Wokingham, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wokingham house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +3.4% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -25.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Wokingham house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £525,000, 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 Wokingham?

£3,503 per square metre, from the 5,987 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 23 Jun 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, “Wokingham 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.