RG2 0HY
Last sold £386,000 in April 2026
257, Basingstoke Road, Reading
- Property type
- Flat
- Bedrooms
- 4 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 936 sq ft / 87 sq m
- EPC rating
- E
- Elevation
- About 47m — higher than about 30% of homes in Reading
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Price history in context
- Apr 2026 — £386,000 · +208.8% · 141 pts ahead of the UK market
- Nov 2006 — £125,000
What this home might be worth today
£386,000
Estimate range £367,000–£405,000
+0.0% since April 2026 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 18 nearby sales within a year · 4-bed (est.) flat within 1 km
The life around it
- Whitley Park Primary and Nursery School 7-min walk
- OneSchool Global Reading Senior Campus 11-min walk
- Reading Green Park station 2.5km
- High Wood(Tithe:South Land Coppice) 3.3km
- The coast (coastline) 44.3km
- Lake 570m
- Pond 530m
- Kennet And Avon Canal 1.2km
- River Kennet 580m
- Long Barn Lane 240m
- Long Barn Lane Children's Playground 320m
- Whitley Local 484m
- Buckland Road Junction (N-Bound) 31m
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 Reading Green Park, 2.5km away
- 39 min London
- 39 min Oxford
- 64 min Bristol
- 98 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
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3 Reading Girls' School · Secondary · Girls 0.3 miles State Ofsted Good Attainment 8: 47.8 — top 40% nationally (2023)
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,580 hours a year — sunnier than 50% 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
Above average for England & Wales — 268 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 259, Basingstoke Road, Reading £137,000 · 2001
- 255, Basingstoke Road, Reading £280,000 · 2018
- 253, Basingstoke Road, Reading £214,000 · 2014
- 249, Basingstoke Road, Reading £214,950 · 2005
- 241, Basingstoke Road, Reading £110,000 · 2000
- 231, Basingstoke Road, Reading £123,500 · 2001
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