3 Aird Close, Woolton Hill, Newbury, RG20 9UH

3 Aird Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Woolton Hill, Newbury, Newbury (RG20 9UH). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£688/sq ft) was about 172.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 74 m² it sits well below the postcode median (146 m² across 4 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £548,000 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.