RG7 3SR
Last sold £475,000 in January 2025
18, Groves Lea, Reading
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 3 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,012 sq ft / 94 sq m
- Plot area
- about 2,200 sq ft / 200 sq m
- EPC rating
- D
- Elevation
- About 93m — higher than about 90% of homes in Reading
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Price history in context
- Jan 2025 — £475,000 · +246.7% · 48 pts behind the UK market
- Sep 1998 — £137,000
What this home might be worth today
£484,000
Estimate range £460,000–£509,000
+2.0% since January 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well below the local norm at the time
vs 10 nearby sales within a year · 3-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Burghfield St Mary's C.E. Primary School 4.1km
- Mortimer St. John's C.E. Infant School 711m
- Mortimer station 2.5km
- Chaplins Copse 911m
- The coast (coastline) 51.8km
- Lake 1.6km
- Pond 761m
- Canal 4.7km
- Lockram Brook 1.0km
- Public Park 1.6km
- The Alfred Palmer Memorial Recreation Field 282m
- M&S Simply Food 5.5km
- Stephens Road (Opp) 128m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Mortimer, 2.5km away
- 45 min London
- 45 min Oxford
- 70 min Bristol
- 104 min Cardiff
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,620 hours a year — sunnier than 70% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 2% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 153 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 16, Groves Lea, Reading £500,000 · 2019
- 55, Groves Lea, Reading £547,000 · 2024
- 39, Groves Lea, Reading £450,000 · 2017
- 20, Groves Lea, Reading £129,000 · 2003
- 5, Groves Lea, Reading £295,000 · 2004
- 24, Groves Lea, Reading £67,000 · 1999
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Non-Material Amendment to planning permission 26/00119/HOUSE: GARAGE CONVERSION AND… Jul 2026 source
- Undecided Application for approval of details reserved by condition 4 'Arb Method Statement' of… Jun 2026 source
- Permitted GARAGE CONVERSION AND SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION May 2026 source
- Permitted T1 - Oak: located on the boundary to the property next to College Piece footpath. Remove… Jun 2026 source
- Permitted Removal of 2x dead Oak trees Jul 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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