1 Birch Avenue, Tilehurst, Reading, RG30 6BL

1 Birch Avenue is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Tilehurst, Reading, Reading (RG30 6BL). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. The rating has held steady at C across 3 certificates since June 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83).

At 86 m² it's 22.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (111 m² median across 10 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 2006–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £455,000 is 18.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£416/sq ft) was about 86.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £385,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.