1 Icarus Court, Sun Street, Reading, RG1 3JX

1 Icarus Court is a one-bedroom property in Reading (RG1 3JX). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. At 48 m² this is the 8th smallest of 9 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 32–108 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (April 2011) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 71). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from April 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 48 m² it sits well below the postcode median (70 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £190,000 in January 2021. Across the public record there are 7 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£368/sq ft) was about 102.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.