5 Albany Gardens, Emmer Green, Reading, RG4 8PZ

5 Albany Gardens is a four-bedroom detached house in Emmer Green, Reading, Reading (RG4 8PZ). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band G. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows a C (score 76), near the top of the C band. The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since February 2012. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 85).

At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2006–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £708,000 is 10.6% above the 2022 sale price. Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £640,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.