RG1 · Reading · Area guide
RG1 (Reading): what the registers record
A district-wide reading of RG1, in Reading (South East), from named official registers. Sold prices are HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition, published 28 September 2026: 6,554 in-district sales over 2016–2025. Generated 15 October 2026 by the same pipeline that produces every brief; regenerated when the register is.
RG1 spans more than one council. The figures that depend on an authority (council tax, rents, the planning portal) are those of Reading, the council at the district centroid. RG1 also reaches Wokingham.
Everything below is stated as recorded. Nothing is graded, ranked, forecast or recommended. The reads are measured from the RG1 district centroid, so point measures such as a flood zone are not stated for the district as a whole.
Quick answers
- How much is a flat in RG1 worth?
- For one home, LuxProperty gives an estimated range from the public registers, tested on 2025 sales. It is not a valuation. In 2025, 227 flats in RG1 sold for a median of £220,000, and the middle half sold for between £185,000 and £280,000. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition. Get an estimated range for one home
- How much is a house in RG1 worth?
- For one home, LuxProperty gives an estimated range from the public registers, tested on 2025 sales. It is not a valuation. In 2025, 331 houses in RG1 sold for a median of £351,000, and the middle half sold for between £300,000 and £430,000. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition. Get an estimated range for one home
- What area is RG1?
- Most postcodes in RG1 (over 99%) are in Reading, in the South East region. The rest are in Wokingham.
- Which council covers RG1?
- Reading Borough Council for most of the district, Wokingham Borough Council for some addresses. The full postcode decides which.
- Which planning authority covers RG1?
- The local council is the planning authority, so it's Reading Borough Council or Wokingham Borough Council depending on the address.
- Which wards does RG1 cover?
- RG1 covers all or part of eight electoral wards: Abbey, Battle, Coley, Katesgrove, Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates, Park, Redlands and Thames.
Sold prices: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition, sales in 2025. Shares count the 1,109 postcodes with premises in RG1 (Ofcom Connected Nations, Spring 2026), each placed in its council and ward by Postcodes.io. Council names and planning authorities are from the MHCLG Planning Data platform.
What homes in RG1 sold for in 2025
For one home, LuxProperty gives an estimated range from the public registers, tested on 2025 sales. It is not a valuation. These are the prices recorded for homes sold in RG1 in 2025, flats and houses separately. The middle half runs from the lower to the upper quartile: a quarter of sales were below it and a quarter above.
Flats
£220,000
median of 227 sales
Middle half: £185,000 to £280,000
Houses
£351,000
median of 331 sales
Middle half: £300,000 to £430,000
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition (published 28 September 2026). Standard sales (Category A) in postcode district RG1 with a transfer date in 2025. Flats are property type F; houses are types D, S and T (detached, semi-detached, terraced). Median and quartiles by nearest rank. A type's figures are stated from 30 sales in the year.
What the Registers Record
Eight reads, each from one source, each stated as recorded. Nothing here is graded, ranked or aimed at a type of buyer. Weigh them against what you are buying for.
- Price trend
The 2025 median in RG1 is £301,000 on 558 sales; 2024 was £297,000 on 553. The move between them is smaller than the two medians' margins of error, so no year-on-year change is stated.
- Sold-price evidence
6,554 in-district Land Registry sales in RG1, 2016–2025; 558 in 2025. Median over the window £288,888. The sample describes the district, not any one property.
- Flood risk· not resolved
A flood zone is a point measure, and this brief is for the RG1 district as a whole, so none is stated for the district centroid. A full postcode gives a point read.
- Coal mining· not resolved
Coal mining is a point read at a postcode centroid, and this brief is for the RG1 district as a whole, so none is stated for the district centroid. A full postcode gives a point read.
- Crime mix
892 crimes recorded within about 1 mile in August 2026; 277 (31%) violence, sexual offences or robbery. police.uk snaps each incident to a representative location, so this describes the radius, not a street.
- Planning designations
No area designation recorded at the RG1 district centroid (Reading LPA): no Article 4 direction or conservation area. Listed-building status is not read at a postcode centroid.
- Letting economics
Gross yield 4.6%–6.3% across 4 priced property types (ONS PIPR rent for Reading, August 2026, over the RG1 type-matched sold median). The lowest, 4.6%, is below the national upper quartile of 5.1% measured across 2,117 districts. Gross, and the rent is a stock average for the whole authority. Recorded sales average 655 a year over 10 years; 558 in 2025.
- Neighbourhood
Nearest station Reading 11 min, 2 in range; 8 schools, nearest 5 min; 61 food shops within 1.2 km, 170 cafés/restaurants within 800 m, 21 GP/health within 1.5 km. Straight-line distances from OpenStreetMap; walk times assume 80 m/min. Measured from the RG1 district centroid.
Resolved for this postcode: Price trend · Sold-price evidence · Crime mix · Planning designations · Letting economics · Neighbourhood Not resolved: Flood risk · Coal mining
Each line is a register reading for the area around this postcode, not a judgement about it or about any property. Read the sections, and verify anything that will drive your decision.
Sources are those of the sections each resolved read names: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (price trend, sold-price evidence), data.police.uk street-level crime (crime mix), MHCLG Planning Data platform (planning designations), ONS Price Index of Private Rents over Land Registry type-matched medians (letting economics), and OpenStreetMap with data.police.uk (neighbourhood). No source is named for the flood risk and coal mining reads, which did not resolve here. Every figure here also appears, with its own footnote, in the section it came from.
Executive Summary
RG1 is a postcode district in Reading (South East), assessed district-wide from its centroid. Across 6,554 in-district Land Registry sales over 2016–2025, the median sold price is £288,888.
The 2025 median is £301,000 on 558 sales; 2024 was £297,000 on 553 sales. The move between them is smaller than the two medians' margins of error, so no year-on-year change is stated.
Recorded sales activity is active (558 sales in 2025), which is why confidence in these figures is rated high. The sample is large enough for the area reads to be reliable.
This median describes sales across the whole of RG1, not any individual property. Land Registry Price Paid Data records the price only, not the condition, size or tenure of what was sold, so it cannot be used as a valuation of a specific home.
Behind these figures
Summary derived from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (the same deduped in-district transaction set as every price figure in this brief) and the Postcodes.io location lookup. Market-trajectory and sales-activity labels use fixed thresholds shown against each signal.
Sold Prices & Trend
Sold price data as of September 2026.
This median describes sales across the whole of RG1, not any individual property. Land Registry Price Paid Data records the price only, not the condition, size or tenure of what was sold, so it cannot be used as a valuation of a specific home.
Based on 6,554 Land Registry transactions in RG1 over 10 years (558 in the most recent full year) — a sample large enough for the area figures to be reliable. The confidence is in the sample, not in any figure as a valuation.
Price Trend (10-Year)
| Year | Sales | Median | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1009 | £260,000 | — |
| 2017 | 677 | £280,000 | +7.7% |
| 2018 | 623 | £275,000 | — |
| 2019 | 612 | £285,000 | — |
| 2020 | 467 | £282,000 | — |
| 2021 | 651 | £285,000 | — |
| 2022 | 780 | £320,000 | +12.3% |
| 2023 | 624 | £314,256 | — |
| 2024 | 553 | £297,000 | -5.5% |
| 2025 | 558 | £301,000 | — |
A blank in the change column means that year's move was smaller than the uncertainty in the two medians it is drawn from — not that prices held steady. Where a change is shown, it is larger than that uncertainty.
District Price Bands
These are area statistics from Land Registry sold prices, not a valuation of any property or a mortgage-lending figure.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district RG1. Deduplicated in-district transactions only.
Recent sales in RG1
The most recent 12 sales are broadly in line with the longer-run window median for RG1.
The recent sales span a wide price range, so significantly different property types or sizes are represented — compare like-for-like before drawing a conclusion.
These are completed, registered sales from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data — not asking prices. Any negotiation after the sale agreed is not reflected in the recorded figure.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district RG1. The 12 most recent deduplicated in-district sales, newest first; registered sale prices, not asking prices.
Street Price Ranking
Area median across all listed streets: £288,888. Streets are grouped into a dearer and a cheaper set, not placed in order — the gaps between neighbouring streets are smaller than the uncertainty in their medians. The sale count shows how much evidence sits behind each.
| Street | Sales | Median | Likely range | vs area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellswood Gardens | 25 | £729,950 | £665,000–£815,000 | +152.7% |
| Upper Redlands Road | 15 | £560,000 | £455,000–£585,000 | +93.8% |
| Reservoir Crescent | 15 | £552,000 | £375,000–£610,000 | +91.1% |
| De Montfort Road | 18 | £462,000 | £447,500–£495,000 | +59.9% |
| Denbeigh Place | 12 | £455,000 | £412,648–£505,000 | +57.5% |
| Street | Sales | Median | Likely range | vs area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Street | 15 | £181,750 | £169,995–£237,000 | -37.1% |
| Pennyroyal Court | 16 | £171,900 | £169,950–£182,000 | -40.5% |
| Oxford Road | 39 | £170,000 | £162,500–£195,000 | -41.2% |
| East Street | 27 | £147,500 | £142,500–£155,750 | -48.9% |
| Talbot Court | 15 | £101,400 | £92,000–£117,500 | -64.9% |
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district RG1. Streets need at least 12 recorded sales to appear; 149 of 333 named streets qualify. 13 further streets were set aside for holding two clearly different price levels (typically mixed new-build and existing stock), where a single median describes neither. Streets are grouped into a dearer and a cheaper set, not ranked in order — the gaps between neighbouring streets are smaller than the uncertainty in their medians.
Property Type Split
Housing stock mix for Reading (the whole local authority), from the 2021 Census — this describes the area's dwellings, not the properties currently for sale.
Source: ONS Census 2021 (21 March 2021) table TS044 (Accommodation type), Reading (E06000038), via Nomis. Granularity: Local authority.
Neighbourhood Profile
- Nearest school
- Katesgrove Primary School · 5 min walk
- Schools in range
- 8
- Recorded crime (~1 mile)
- 892 recorded in August 2026 · 31% violence/robbery
- Nearest station
- Reading · 11 min walk
- Stations in range
- 2
- Line diversity
- 1 line
- Nearest food shop
- TK Maxx · 3 min walk
- Shops & food outlets
- 61 shops · 170 cafés/restaurants
- Nearest green space
- Holy Brook Nook · 7 min walk
- Named parks in range
- 8
No resident commentary is shown for RG1. This block is left empty rather than filled with generic or unverified text.
Neighbourhood inputs are what OpenStreetMap (stations, schools, amenities, parks) and data.police.uk (recorded crime) record within walking range of this postcode. Distances are straight-line; walk times assume 80 m/min.
Stations & Commute
The nearest major employment centre is Reading, about 0.8 km away in a straight line from the RG1 district centre. Actual travel time depends on road and rail connections — check National Rail or a mapping app for door-to-door times.
- ReadingNational RailElizabeth lineElizabeth11 min walk847 m
- Reading WestNational Rail19 min walk1.5 km
Walk times are estimates from straight-line distance at 80 m/min (~4.8 km/h), not routed walking directions.
Stations from OpenStreetMap (Overpass). Modes and lines are deduplicated from OSM tags. Commute distance is straight-line to the nearest major employment centre — not a timetabled journey time.
Schools
- Katesgrove Primary SchoolPrimary Ofsted report5 min walk329 m
- Kendrick SchoolSecondary Ofsted report5 min walk353 m
- The Deenway Montessori SchoolSecondary Ofsted report6 min walk435 m
- Coley Primary SchoolPrimary Ofsted report7 min walk560 m
- The Abbey Senior SchoolSecondary Ofsted report8 min walk599 m
- Forbury Gardens Day NurseryNursery Ofsted report8 min walk638 m
- Red Balloon ReadingSecondary Ofsted report11 min walk870 m
- New Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary Ofsted report12 min walk901 m
Schools from OpenStreetMap (Overpass); nearest 8 within range. Distances are straight-line, walk times estimated at 80 m/min. Ratings via each school's official Ofsted report (reports.ofsted.gov.uk).
Local Amenities
- TK MaxxDepartment store3 min
- Tesco ExpressConvenience store3 min
- Big BazaarConvenience store4 min
- MadooDeli4 min
- Mama's WayDeli5 min
- Holland & BarrettHealth food5 min
- Bakery HouseRestaurant2 min
- PayaFast food2 min
- Las IguanasRestaurant2 min
- Street BurgerRestaurant2 min
- Maragume UdonRestaurant2 min
- RodeoFast food2 min
- London Street SurgeryGP surgery2 min
- SkinClinic2 min
- ultrasound direct The Fertility PartnershipClinic2 min
- BootsPharmacy5 min
- The Laser ClinicClinic6 min
Amenities from OpenStreetMap (Overpass). Counts are what OSM records within range (supermarkets/food ≤1.2 km, cafés/restaurants ≤800 m, health ≤1.5 km); distances are straight-line, walk times estimated at 80 m/min.
Crime Breakdown
Crime: data.police.uk street-level crimes, August 2026 (the feed lags ~2 months). Radius ~1 mile of the coordinates. No national benchmark is shown — police.uk carries no population denominator to compute one fairly.
Planning Activity & Risk Flags
Risk flags
No conservation-area, Article 4, TPO or landscape designation was recorded at the RG1 district centroid — designations are point-specific, so a full postcode gives the picture for an exact address. That's a genuine "none recorded" for those area designations at this point, not a data gap. Listed-building status is not assessed here: the source is building-outline polygons, and a postcode centroid rarely falls inside one, so a miss is not evidence that the property is unlisted. Check the address on the National Heritage List for England (historicengland.org.uk) or Cadw for Wales.
Live planning-application counts aren't available from any free national feed, so none is shown here (a figure would be guesswork). To see current and recent applications for a specific address, search the Reading planning portal.
Open the council planning portalPlanning designations: MHCLG Planning Data platform (planning.data.gov.uk), point-in-polygon at the coordinates · LPA: Reading LPA. Each designation's date is its official designation/start date. Listed-building status is not assessed here: the source is building-outline polygons, and a postcode centroid rarely falls inside one, so a miss is not evidence that the property is unlisted. Check the address on the National Heritage List for England (historicengland.org.uk) or Cadw for Wales. Live applications are not shown — check the council portal (www.reading.gov.uk).
Flood, Climate & Resilience
Flood risk varies across RG1. The Environment Agency flood areas and any live warnings below are shown for the district as a whole.
6 Environment Agency flood areas within 3km — nearest is “Properties closest to the River Thames from Scours Lane, Reading to Caversham Lakes” (River Thames), about ~1.8km away. Distances are approximate (measured to each area’s centre).
- Properties closest to the River Thames from Scours Lane, Reading to Caversham LakesRiver Thameswarning~1.8km
- River Thames at Reading and CavershamRiver Thameswarning~1.9km
- River Thames from Mapledurham to SonningRiver Thamesalert~2.3km
- Properties closest to the River Kennet at the Burghfield, Southcote, Coley and Holybrook areasRiver Kennetwarning~4.7km
- River Kennet from Theale down to ReadingRiver Kennetwarning~4.8km
- Foudry Brook from Stratfield Mortimer to Green ParkFoudry Brook, West End Brookwarning~6.1km
- Generate a brief for a full postcode to get the flood zone at that postcode's centroid — then verify the exact plot at flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk.
- Check the surface-water flood layer separately — it is a distinct hazard from the river/sea flooding assessed here.
Source: Environment Agency open data, queried at the validated coordinates: Flood Warning/Alert Areas. Indicative and area-modelled — not a property-specific flood risk assessment. Confirm at flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk. Live flood warnings are not shown in guides; a full postcode brief checks them when it is generated.
Buying Costs
| Band | Rate | Tax on portion |
|---|---|---|
| £125,001–£250,000 | 2% | £2,500 |
| £250,001–£925,000 | 5% | £1,944 |
Additional property: Buying an additional property (second home or buy-to-let) adds a 5% surcharge on every band.
First-time buyers: First-time buyers pay no SDLT up to £300,000, then 5% on £300,001–£500,000 (no relief on purchases above £500,000).
- Stress-test affordability against higher interest rates: lenders check whether you could still meet repayments if rates rose, and your budget should survive the same test.
- If the property is leasehold, check the remaining lease term, ground rent and service charges before offering — short leases (under ~80 years) are expensive to extend and can affect mortgageability.
Stamp Duty Land Tax rates effective 1 April 2025.
Council tax: Reading area Band D £2,613/yr — the whole bill, including county, police, fire, parish and adult social care precepts. MHCLG council tax levels 2026/27. Bands A–H derived via the statutory multipliers (A=6/9 … D=1 … H=2). Use the gov.uk checker for a property's confirmed band.
Rental Snapshot
£1,574 pcm is the average rent currently being paid across all private tenancies in Reading, from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, August 2026.
These two breakdowns describe the same rental stock cut two different ways — they are not a cross-tabulation. ONS publishes no figure for, say, a two-bed flat, so one cannot be read off the two groups together.
Rents: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR), local-authority level for England and Wales, published monthly. PIPR price levels are a weighted geometric average of modelled prices across the private rental STOCK — not a median, and PIPR publishes no quartiles. England and Wales inputs are achieved rents (what tenants actually pay) across a mix of new and existing tenancies. Bedroom and property-type figures are separate breakdowns of the same stock, not a cross-tabulation: there is no "two-bed flat" figure. See the ONS 'Private rent and house prices, UK' bulletin (https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest).
Letting Economics
| Flat | 6.1% | £1,272 pcm × 12 ÷ £250,000(3,652 sales) |
| Terraced | 6.3% | £1,607 pcm × 12 ÷ £308,335(2,191 sales) |
| Semi-detached | 5.1% | £1,755 pcm × 12 ÷ £415,250(504 sales) |
| Detached | 4.6% | £2,172 pcm × 12 ÷ £569,950(207 sales) |
Each figure is the ONS PIPR rent for that property type in Reading (August 2026), times twelve, divided by the Land Registry median sold price for the SAME property type in RG1. Matching on type is what makes the division meaningful; PIPR's bedroom figures are shown in the Rental Snapshot but cannot be used here, because Price Paid Data records no bedroom count.
Two things still do not line up, and neither is hidden. The rent is the whole of Reading; the price is just the RG1 district — a narrower area inside it, so the two describe different ground. And the rent is a stock average across new and existing tenancies, which sits below what a new letting achieves, biasing these yields DOWN by an amount ONS does not publish and we do not estimate. Gross, too: no voids, management, maintenance or tax.
6,554 recorded sales over 10 years; 558 in 2025.
Gross yield: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (local-authority, by property type) ÷ HM Land Registry median sold price for the same property type in this district. The rent covers the whole local authority and the price covers the postcode district, so the two grains differ; the rent is also a stock average and sits below new-let rates. Sales velocity: HM Land Registry recorded in-district sales per year. No tenant-demand, void or days-to-let data is used because none is available from a free national feed.
Energy Performance (EPC)
Energy performance: MHCLG EPC Register (England & Wales), searched by full postcode. Address-level certificates: find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk.
Air Quality
Air quality: DEFRA / ERG monitoring network — Reading - New Town (urban background station), 1.8 km from the RG1 district centre. Live readings are not shown in guides; a full postcode brief gives the current reading.
What this guide does not say
- No school grade. Each school is named with its distance and a link to its official Ofsted report page; the brief does not hold a verifiable per-school ratings feed and does not assert one.
- No development schemes. There is no national planning-application feed; planning designations at the district centroid are shown with their official reference and date instead.
- No valuation, offer figure or price forecast. District medians describe sales across the whole district, not any property.
- No year-on-year move unless it clears the margins of error of the two medians it is drawn from. Where it does not, that is said.
- No point measures for a whole district. A flood zone or an EPC profile belongs to an address; generate a brief for a full postcode for those.
- No resident commentary, testimonial or editorial verdict.
Sources
18 of 18 sections carry a source line. Generated 15 October 2026 · register edition September 2026.
- What homes in RG1 sold for in 2025
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, September 2026 edition (published 28 September 2026). Standard sales (Category A) in postcode district RG1 with a transfer date in 2025. Flats are property type F; houses are types D, S and T (detached, semi-detached, terraced). Median and quartiles by nearest rank. A type's figures are stated from 30 sales in the year.
- What the Registers Record
- Sources are those of the sections each resolved read names: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (price trend, sold-price evidence), data.police.uk street-level crime (crime mix), MHCLG Planning Data platform (planning designations), ONS Price Index of Private Rents over Land Registry type-matched medians (letting economics), and OpenStreetMap with data.police.uk (neighbourhood). No source is named for the flood risk and coal mining reads, which did not resolve here. Every figure here also appears, with its own footnote, in the section it came from.
- Executive Summary
- Summary derived from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (the same deduped in-district transaction set as every price figure in this brief) and the Postcodes.io location lookup. Market-trajectory and sales-activity labels use fixed thresholds shown against each signal.
- Sold Prices & Trend
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district RG1. Deduplicated in-district transactions only.
- Recent sales in RG1
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district RG1. The 12 most recent deduplicated in-district sales, newest first; registered sale prices, not asking prices.
- Street Price Ranking
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, 2016–2025, postcode district RG1. Streets need at least 12 recorded sales to appear; 149 of 333 named streets qualify. 13 further streets were set aside for holding two clearly different price levels (typically mixed new-build and existing stock), where a single median describes neither. Streets are grouped into a dearer and a cheaper set, not ranked in order — the gaps between neighbouring streets are smaller than the uncertainty in their medians.
- Property Type Split
- Source: ONS Census 2021 (21 March 2021) table TS044 (Accommodation type), Reading (E06000038), via Nomis. Granularity: Local authority.
- Neighbourhood Profile
- Neighbourhood inputs are what OpenStreetMap (stations, schools, amenities, parks) and data.police.uk (recorded crime) record within walking range of this postcode. Distances are straight-line; walk times assume 80 m/min.
- Stations & Commute
- Stations from OpenStreetMap (Overpass). Modes and lines are deduplicated from OSM tags. Commute distance is straight-line to the nearest major employment centre — not a timetabled journey time.
- Schools
- Schools from OpenStreetMap (Overpass); nearest 8 within range. Distances are straight-line, walk times estimated at 80 m/min. Ratings via each school's official Ofsted report (reports.ofsted.gov.uk).
- Local Amenities
- Amenities from OpenStreetMap (Overpass). Counts are what OSM records within range (supermarkets/food ≤1.2 km, cafés/restaurants ≤800 m, health ≤1.5 km); distances are straight-line, walk times estimated at 80 m/min.
- Crime Breakdown
- Crime: data.police.uk street-level crimes, August 2026 (the feed lags ~2 months). Radius ~1 mile of the coordinates. No national benchmark is shown — police.uk carries no population denominator to compute one fairly.
- Planning Activity & Risk FlagsSPARSE
- Planning designations: MHCLG Planning Data platform (planning.data.gov.uk), point-in-polygon at the coordinates · LPA: Reading LPA. Each designation's date is its official designation/start date. Listed-building status is not assessed here: the source is building-outline polygons, and a postcode centroid rarely falls inside one, so a miss is not evidence that the property is unlisted. Check the address on the National Heritage List for England (historicengland.org.uk) or Cadw for Wales. Live applications are not shown — check the council portal (www.reading.gov.uk).
- Flood, Climate & Resilience
- Source: Environment Agency open data, queried at the validated coordinates: Flood Warning/Alert Areas. Indicative and area-modelled — not a property-specific flood risk assessment. Confirm at flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk. Live flood warnings are not shown in guides; a full postcode brief checks them when it is generated.
- Buying Costs
- Council tax: Reading area Band D £2,613/yr — the whole bill, including county, police, fire, parish and adult social care precepts. MHCLG council tax levels 2026/27. Bands A–H derived via the statutory multipliers (A=6/9 … D=1 … H=2). Use the gov.uk checker for a property's confirmed band.
- Rental Snapshot
- Rents: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR), local-authority level for England and Wales, published monthly. PIPR price levels are a weighted geometric average of modelled prices across the private rental STOCK — not a median, and PIPR publishes no quartiles. England and Wales inputs are achieved rents (what tenants actually pay) across a mix of new and existing tenancies. Bedroom and property-type figures are separate breakdowns of the same stock, not a cross-tabulation: there is no "two-bed flat" figure. See the ONS 'Private rent and house prices, UK' bulletin (https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentandhousepricesuk/latest).
- Letting Economics
- Gross yield: ONS Price Index of Private Rents (local-authority, by property type) ÷ HM Land Registry median sold price for the same property type in this district. The rent covers the whole local authority and the price covers the postcode district, so the two grains differ; the rent is also a stock average and sits below new-let rates. Sales velocity: HM Land Registry recorded in-district sales per year. No tenant-demand, void or days-to-let data is used because none is available from a free national feed.
- Energy Performance (EPC)SPARSE
- Energy performance: MHCLG EPC Register (England & Wales), searched by full postcode. Address-level certificates: find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk.
- Air Quality
- Air quality: DEFRA / ERG monitoring network — Reading - New Town (urban background station), 1.8 km from the RG1 district centre. Live readings are not shown in guides; a full postcode brief gives the current reading.
Read the registers for a full RG1 postcode
A full postcode gives the point reads a district cannot: the flood zone at the address, the EPC profile of its certified homes, planning designations at the plot, and the nearest schools and stations measured from it.