Sussex House, Flat 304, 6 The Forbury, Reading, RG1 3EJ

Sussex House is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Reading (RG1 3EJ). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1967-1975. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since July 2015. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). Main heating runs on electricity. At 64 m² this is the 15th smallest of 25 units on EPC record in Sussex House, where floor areas span 43–109 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 25 units on file.

At 64 m² it's 19.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (54 m² median across 30 EPCs). Across 2015–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at -0.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £282,000 is 12.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£363/sq ft) was about 17.6% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £250,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.