Robins Nest Cottage, Beech Hill Road, Beech Hill, Reading, RG7 2AU

Robins Nest Cottage is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Beech Hill, Reading, Reading (RG7 2AU). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 694 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2010) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 58). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from April 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since November 2010, a hold of 16 years that's notably long for the area. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1997–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £437,000 sits 56.1% above the 2010 sale of £280,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£404/sq ft) was about 69.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 64 m² it's 28.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (50 m² median across 7 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs).