That is the middle of 1,008 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 6.1 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.
1,008 homes sold in three years: 252 detached houses, 381 semi-detached houses, 219 terraced houses and 156 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£595K
median sale · 252 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£505K–£680K
Last 12 months
£620K81 sold
Semi-detached houses£460K
median sale · 381 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£420K–£503K
Last 12 months
£455K107 sold
Terraced houses£385K
median sale · 219 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£437K
Last 12 months
£387K57 sold
Flats and maisonettes£245K
median sale · 156 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£218K–£270K
Last 12 months
£253K59 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses25%
Semi-detached houses38%
Terraced houses22%
Flats and maisonettes15%
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 Woodley’s homes sold for between £365K and £525K
One sale in ten was under £250K and one in ten over £635K. 9% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £445,500, sits in the £400–500K band
1,008 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £74,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in the last 12 months (£368,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
304 sales in the last 12 months, against 671 in 2001, the busiest year, and 283 in 2023. Sales fell by 37% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 43% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Woodley costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Woodley, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£115K
£215K
£285K
£335K
£450K
£550K
£620K
Semi-detached houses
£76K
£150K
£216K
£246K
£340K
£408K
£455K
Terraced houses
£65K
£124K
£183K
£204K
£290K
£350K
£387K
Flats and maisonettes
£52K
£98K
£153K
£170K
£205K
£225K
£253K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 31% in 2016
1,042 new homes have been sold in Woodley since 1995; the share peaked at 31% in 2016.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.1% sold leasehold in Woodley. 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
Fairwater Drive is Woodley’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
84 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 25 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
Fairwater Drive
RG5
19
£405,000
Mixed
2
Loddon Bridge Road
RG5
18
£593,750
Mostly detached houses
3
Colemans Moor Road
RG5
18
£473,500
Mixed
4
Butts Hill Road
RG5
14
£514,000
Mixed
5
Rochester Avenue
RG5
14
£457,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Hartigan Place
RG5
14
£240,000
Mostly flats
7
Elm Drive
RG5
13
£307,500
Mostly flats
8
Howth Drive
RG5
13
£220,000
Mostly flats
9
Woodlands Avenue
RG5
12
£480,000
Mixed
10
Roslyn Road
RG5
12
£457,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Nightingale Road
RG5
12
£452,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Antrim Road
RG5
12
£451,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Headley Road East
RG5
12
£181,500
Mostly flats
14
Quentin Road
RG5
11
£475,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Caldbeck Drive
RG5
11
£472,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Denmark Avenue: £850,000
Woodley median£446K
Denmark Avenue£850K
Western Avenue£705K
Reading Road£698K
Farriers Close£623K
Messenger Road£620K
Cheapest streets
Headley Road East: £181,500
Woodley median£446K
Headley Road East£182K
Howth Drive£220K
Headley Road£228K
Hartigan Place£240K
Southlake Court£243K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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
Woodley is the 21st most expensive of 30 towns in Berkshire
Woodley is in the middle of Berkshire’s 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 Woodley
What is the average house price in Woodley?
The median home in Woodley sold for £445,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,008 standard sales (£450,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £595,000, semi-detached houses £460,000, terraced houses £385,000 and flats and maisonettes £245,000.
Are house prices going up in Woodley?
The median was £450,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£445,000), and £450,000 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 Woodley each year?
304 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 408 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Woodley?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Denmark Avenue (RG5, £850,000), Western Avenue (RG5, £705,000) and Reading Road (RG5, £697,500).
Is Woodley expensive for Berkshire?
Woodley is the 21st 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.