78b, Star Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 5BE

78b is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Caversham, Reading, Reading (RG4 5BE). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Most recent transfer: October 2020 at £380,000. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a garage conversion, an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 83 m² it's 18.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (70 m² median across 56 EPCs). Across 1996–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £475,000 is 25% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£425/sq ft) was about 77.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.