8 Carling Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9TG

8 Carling Road is a detached house in Sonning Common, Reading, Reading (RG4 9TG). It has a recorded floor area of 162 m² (around 1745 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2011) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since February 1999, a hold of 27 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £716,000 sits 193.4% above the 1999 sale of £244,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£140/sq ft) was about 54.8% below the postcode norm. At 162 m² it's 19.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (136 m² median across 7 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). One historical planning record sits against the property in 2014.