Uplands, Basingstoke Road, Swallowfield, Reading, RG7 1PY

Uplands is a five-bedroom detached house in Swallowfield, Reading, Reading (RG7 1PY). It has a recorded floor area of 225 m² (around 2422 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows an F (score 25), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe and outbuildings. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 225 m² it's 20.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (187 m² median across 14 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£475/sq ft) was about 25.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £1,150,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.