12 Emmens Close, Checkendon, Reading, RG8 0TU

12 Emmens Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Checkendon, Reading, Reading (RG8 0TU). It has a recorded floor area of 133 m² (around 1432 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2014) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

Held since June 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 133 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £357,000 sits 346.3% above the 2011 sale of £80,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£56/sq ft) was about 83% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2013.