Oak Villa, Basingstoke Road, Spencers Wood, Reading, RG7 1AP

Oak Villa is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Spencers Wood, Reading, Reading (RG7 1AP). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1044 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2012) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 97 m² it sits well below the postcode median (169 m² across 16 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £425,000 in April 2019. Across the public record there are 7 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2019, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £485,000 is 14.1% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£407/sq ft) was about 41.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.