24 Birch Close, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9LE

24 Birch Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Sonning Common, Reading, Reading (RG4 9LE). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1421 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows a C (score 72). The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 82). Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 132 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 85% of similar EPCs). Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £643,000 is 21.3% above the 2021 sale price. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £530,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.