Highfield Cottage, Basingstoke Road, Spencers Wood, Reading, RG7 1AJ

Highfield Cottage is a three-bedroom detached house in Spencers Wood, Reading, Reading (RG7 1AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 83 m² it sits well below the postcode median (139 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last changed hands 8 years ago, in December 2017. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 2002–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £513,000 is 10.3% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£520/sq ft) was about 65.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.