8 Chelwood Road, Earley, Reading, RG6 5QG

8 Chelwood Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Earley, Reading, Reading (RG6 5QG). It has a recorded floor area of 179 m² (around 1927 sq ft) and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2016) returns a B (score 84), comfortably above the UK average. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 2008 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 179 m² the property is well over the postcode median (113 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £761,000 sits 120.6% above the 2008 sale of £345,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£179/sq ft) was about 35.8% below the postcode norm. 9 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.