The Cottage, Newtown, Upper Basildon, Reading, RG8 8JG

The Cottage is a detached house in Upper Basildon, Reading, Reading (RG8 8JG). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 396 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (October 2010) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from October 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1996–2011, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £425,000 sits 58% above the 2011 sale of £269,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£679/sq ft) was about 92% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 37 m² it sits well below the postcode median (131 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs).