24 Goldsmid Road, Reading, RG1 7YB

24 Goldsmid Road is a semi-detached house in Reading (RG1 7YB). It has a recorded floor area of 35 m² (around 377 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2019) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in November 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Across 2010–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £156,000 is 22% below the 2022 sale of £200,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£531/sq ft) was about 141.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 35 m² it sits well below the postcode median (60 m² across 33 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £200,000 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.