51 Western Avenue, Woodley, Reading, RG5 3BJ

51 Western Avenue is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Woodley, Reading, Reading (RG5 3BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 162 m² (around 1744 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a balcony.

Sale prices here have outpaced Reading HPI: 8.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£413/sq ft) was about 76.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 162 m² the property is well over the postcode median (111 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2000. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £720,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.