5a, The Square, Spencers Wood, Reading, RG7 1BS

5a is a semi-detached house in Spencers Wood, Reading, Reading (RG7 1BS). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 1001 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2017) shows a C (score 75), near the top of the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 86).

Held since January 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £455,000 sits 329.2% above the 1997 sale of £106,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£106/sq ft) was about 59.2% below the postcode norm. At 93 m² it's 29.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (132 m² median across 20 EPCs). One historical planning record sits against the property in 2014.