28 Briar Lea Road, Mortimer Common, Reading, RG7 3SA

28 Briar Lea Road is a detached house in Mortimer Common, Reading, Reading (RG7 3SA). It has a recorded floor area of 192 m² (around 2067 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (December 2019) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77).

Held since July 1999 — that's 27 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. At 192 m² the property is well over the postcode median (119 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £748,000 sits 382.6% above the 1999 sale of £155,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£75/sq ft) was about 69.5% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.