47 Melrose Gardens, Arborfield Cross, Reading, RG2 9PY

47 Melrose Gardens is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Arborfield Cross, Reading, Reading (RG2 9PY). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows a C (score 78), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in May 2020 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and main heating went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 74 m² it's 18.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (91 m² median across 23 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £400,000 is 26.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£398/sq ft) was about 65.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £317,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.