2 Goodchild Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Wokingham (RG40 2EN). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 1001 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced Wokingham HPI: 6.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£619/sq ft) was about 125.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 93 m² it's 21.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (118 m² median across 17 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). Sold May 2022 for £620,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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2 Goodchild Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
2 Goodchild Road has been extended on multiple sides of the property across separate planning applications.
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Price for 2 Goodchild Road has grown more than fourfold since the 1997 starting point.
£637,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.7% per year over 24 years.
£620,000
Growth on file: 6.7% per year over 24 years.
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What we flagged
2 Goodchild Road outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£6,667
Street avg £3,835
Floor Area
93 m²
Street avg 118 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Reported crime in the wider district is trending notably upward year-on-year.
Crime
6/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
52.0dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Householder application for the proposed erection of a single storey side extension.
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Householder application for the proposed erection of a part single storey rear extension including 4 off rooflights to dwelling.
10 May 2022Most recent
£620,000
+129.6%over 13 years15 September 2008
£270,000
+110.9%over 10 years23 December 1997
£128,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG40 2EN: £600,000 (2025–2019).

Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.8 t/year
Street avg 5.3 t/year
RG40 2BD
Seaford Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 km
Wescott Infant School. 18 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
43.2dB