60 Southend Road, Bradfield Southend, Reading, RG7 6EY

60 Southend Road is a one-bedroom detached house in Bradfield Southend, Reading, Reading (RG7 6EY). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an F (score 29), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (August 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 57), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 49 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 21 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 47–213 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (29 versus a best of 85).

At 49 m² it sits well below the postcode median (85 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold May 2021 for £160,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2006–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.5% per year.