3 Bethesda Street, Upper Basildon, Reading, RG8 8NT

3 Bethesda Street is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Upper Basildon, Reading, Reading (RG8 8NT). It has a recorded floor area of 157 m² (around 1690 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The latest certificate (July 2016) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 157 m² it sits well below the postcode median (268 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 10 planning records sit against the property, 9 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and solar panel installation, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£559/sq ft) was about 87.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2022 at £945,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.