8 Beatty Rise, Spencers Wood, Reading, RG7 1FQ

8 Beatty Rise is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Spencers Wood, Reading, Reading (RG7 1FQ). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it B (September 2009); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

It hasn't traded since December 2006, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. At 60 m² it's 18.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (73 m² median across 55 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £347,000 sits 69.3% above the 2006 sale of £205,000.