4 Birch Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Finchampstead, Wokingham, Wokingham (RG40 3LB). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band F. Other recorded features include a conservatory. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a C (score 71). The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 82).
Sale prices here have outpaced Wokingham HPI: 5.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £649,000 is 18% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£426/sq ft) was about 80.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 120 m² it's 15.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (143 m² median across 4 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £550,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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4 Birch Road ranks among the most efficient homes in the postcode for energy use.
4 Birch Road has no planning applications on record.
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4 Birch Road has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1996.
£649,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.9% per year over 25 years.
£550,000
Growth on file: 5.9% per year over 25 years.
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4 Birch Road outperforms the street on epc rating by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,583
Street avg £3,702
Floor Area
120 m²
Street avg 153 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
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.4dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
12 May 2021Most recent
£550,000
+200.5%over 22 years31 July 1998
£183,000
+35.6%over 1 year28 October 1996
£135,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG40 3LB: £480,000 (2024–2008).

Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
3.9 t/year
Street avg 6.3 t/year
RG40 3SQ
Barkham Ride — bus stop.
Closest school
0.5 km
Nine Mile Ride Primary School. 7 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.4dB