RG1 5NQ
Last sold £79,950 in September 1997
68, Blenheim Road, Reading
- Property type
- Terraced
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 46m — higher than about 30% of homes in Reading
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Price history in context
- Sep 1997 — £79,950 · +33.3% · 16 pts ahead of the UK market
- Jan 1995 — £60,000
What this home might be worth today
£360,000
Estimate range £342,000–£378,000
+350.0% since September 1997 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 200 nearby sales within a year · terraced within 1 km
The life around it
- Reading School 13-min walk
- Redlands Primary School 9-min walk
- Reading station 1.8km
- High Wood(Tithe:South Land Coppice) 1.8km
- The coast (coastline) 43.0km
- Lake 623m
- Pond 1.2km
- Kennet And Avon Canal 632m
- River Kennet 651m
- King George V Memorial Garden 462m
- Play Area 543m
- General Convenience Shop League Of Friends 526m
- Hatherley Road (Opp) 152m
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, 1.8km away
- 22 min Oxford
- 23 min London
- 48 min Bristol
- 83 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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1 Reading School · Secondary · Boys 0.2 miles State Ofsted Outstanding Attainment 8: 81.1 — top 20% nationally (2023)
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2 St John's Church of England Primary School · Primary · Church of England 0.3 miles State Ofsted Good
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 60–64 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — a busy road within earshot.
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: no hills shade it. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Among the highest for England & Wales — 170 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 38, Blenheim Road, Reading £59,950 · 1996
- 64, Blenheim Road, Reading £119,950 · 2000
- 42, Blenheim Road, Reading £150,500 · 2002
- 2, Blenheim Road, Reading £273,000 · 2010
- 48, Blenheim Road, Reading £115,000 · 2006
- 44, Blenheim Road, Reading £219,950 · 2006
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