31 St Johns Road, Reading, RG1 4EB

31 St Johns Road is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Reading (RG1 4EB). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in March 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

At 90 m² it's 20% larger than the typical home in the postcode (75 m² median across 29 EPCs). 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£351/sq ft) was about 45.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £340,000 in September 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.