Palmerston House, Flat 4, 3 Aran Walk, Reading, RG2 0GF

Palmerston House is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Reading (RG2 0GF). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows a C (score 74). Earlier certificates rated it B (September 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 81). Main heating runs on electricity. At 40 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 10 units on EPC record in Palmerston House, where floor areas span 27–61 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B across 10 units on file.

At 40 m² it sits well below the postcode median (60 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £210,000 in December 2022. 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 2010–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£488/sq ft) was about 39.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.