5 Whitewell Close, Arborfield Cross, Reading, RG2 9PE

5 Whitewell Close is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Arborfield Cross, Reading, Reading (RG2 9PE). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 790 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2011) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 73 m² it's 17.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (63 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold March 2021 for £305,000. Across the public record there are 4 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 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £347,000 is 13.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£386/sq ft) was about 75.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.