The Topiary, Pangbourne Road, Upper Basildon, Reading, RG8 8LN

The Topiary is a detached house in Upper Basildon, Reading, Reading (RG8 8LN). It has a recorded floor area of 289 m² (around 3111 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007-2011 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since March 2011. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 73). Main heating runs on oil.

Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £1,125,000. Across the public record there are 5 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 289 m² it's 20.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (240 m² median across 18 EPCs). Across 2006–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,294,000 is 15% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£362/sq ft) was about 47.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.