diff --git a/libs/ardour/region.cc b/libs/ardour/region.cc
index 5548b09884..370a150930 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/region.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/region.cc
@@ -2197,7 +2197,7 @@ Region::end() const
 	/* one day we might want to enforce _position, _start and _length (or
 	   some combination thereof) all being in the same time domain.
 	*/
-	return position() + _length.val();
+	return _length.val().end();
 }
 
 timepos_t