Hope Cottage, Flat 3, Reading Road, Woodcote, Reading, RG8 0QY

Hope Cottage is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Woodcote, Reading, Reading (RG8 0QY). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (August 2013) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 49 m² it sits well below the postcode median (118 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last changed hands 8 years ago, in March 2018. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 2000–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £265,000 is 19.4% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£421/sq ft) was about 58.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.