Model valuation£417,0008 Busby Close
Local market context
2a is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Goring, Reading, Reading (RG8 0DU). It has a recorded floor area of 192 m² (around 2067 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2022. The latest certificate (July 2022) returns a high B (score 87), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 94). The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal.
At 192 m² the property is well over the postcode median (93 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 84% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£433/sq ft) was about 34.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £895,000 in August 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Certificate validity
Valid until 3 July 2032
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2a has no planning applications on record.
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Latest sale on 2a was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£840,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£895,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
21 August 2022Most recent
£895,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG8 0DU: £560,000 (2025–2023).
52 Elvendon Road, Goring, Reading, RG8 0DU
Sold Jul 2025
24 Elvendon Road, Goring, Reading, RG8 0DU
Sold Mar 2025
42 Elvendon Road, Goring, Reading, RG8 0DU
Sold Sept 2024
22 Elvendon Road, Goring, Reading, RG8 0DU
Sold Dec 2023
12 Elvendon Road, Goring, Reading, RG8 0DU
Sold Feb 2023
2a outperforms the street on epc rating by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£4,661
Street avg £4,841
Floor Area
192 m²
Street avg 103 m²
CO₂ Emissions
2.1 t/year
Street avg 3.3 t/year
Years Held
4 years
Street avg 7 years
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Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
52/mo
Falling year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.2 km
Elvendon Road — bus stop.
Closest school
0.1 km
Goring Church of England Aided Primary School. 3 schools nearby.
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