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

5 Icarus Court is a semi-detached house in Reading (RG1 3JX). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. At 40 m² this is the 5th 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. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (63 versus a best of 78). The latest certificate (April 2018) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (70 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Most recent transfer: November 2021 at £159,000. Across the public record there are 5 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 5.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £176,000 is 10.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£369/sq ft) was about 93.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.