That is the middle of 107 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
107 homes sold in three years: 57 detached houses, 19 semi-detached houses, 28 terraced houses and 3 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£965K
median sale · 57 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£730K–£1.3M
Last 12 months
£965K13 sold
Semi-detached houses£815K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£533K–£900K
Last 12 months
£845K6 sold
Terraced houses£528K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£425K–£735K
Last 12 months
£575K7 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses53%
Semi-detached houses18%
Terraced houses26%
Flats and maisonettes3%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Wargrave’s homes sold for between £575K and £1.1M
One sale in ten was under £410K and one in ten over £1.5M. 3% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £785,000, sits in the £750K–1M band
107 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.5 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £120,050 in 1995 to £782,500 in the last 12 months (£650,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
28 sales in the last 12 months, against 70 in 1996, the busiest year, and 25 in 2008. Sales fell by 57% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 59% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Wargrave costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Wargrave, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£191K
£320K
£435K
£585K
£643K
£654K
£965K
Semi-detached houses
—
£198K
£300K
—
£375K
£738K
£845K
Terraced houses
£83K
£168K
£210K
£261K
£365K
£373K
£575K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
46 new homes have been sold in Wargrave since 1995; the share peaked at 16% in 2013.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
3% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1% sold leasehold in Wargrave. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Victoria Road is Wargrave’s busiest street, with 18 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Victoria Road
RG10
18
£742,500
Mixed
2
High Street
RG10
12
£626,250
Mostly terraced houses
3
School Lane
RG10
7
£440,000
Mostly terraced houses
4
Blakes Road
RG10
6
£1,262,500
Mostly detached houses
5
Fidlers Walk
RG10
5
£720,000
Mostly detached houses
6
Purfield Drive
RG10
5
£658,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Highfield Park
RG10
5
£520,000
Mixed
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Berkshire
Wargrave is the most expensive of 30 towns in Berkshire
Wargrave is one of Berkshire’s dearest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Wargrave
What is the average house price in Wargrave?
The median home in Wargrave sold for £785,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 107 standard sales (£782,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £965,000, semi-detached houses £815,000 and terraced houses £527,500.
Are house prices going up in Wargrave?
The median was £767,500 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£787,500), and £782,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Wargrave each year?
28 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 42 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Wargrave expensive for Berkshire?
Wargrave is the most expensive of 30 towns of 2,500 or more in Berkshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.