45 Amber Close, Earley, Reading, RG6 7ED

45 Amber Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Earley, Reading, Reading (RG6 7ED). It has a recorded floor area of 38 m² (around 409 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 91), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced Reading HPI: 5.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £464,000 is 17.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£966/sq ft) was about 261.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 38 m² it sits well below the postcode median (75 m² across 29 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £395,000 in February 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2024. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.