RG4 8RZ
Last sold £204,950 in January 2003
8, Buckingham Drive, Reading
- Property type
- Semi-detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 82m — higher than about 80% of homes in Reading
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Price history in context
- Jan 2003 — £204,950 · +34.8% · 1 pts ahead of the UK market
- Mar 2001 — £152,000
What this home might be worth today
£481,000
Estimate range £457,000–£505,000
+134.7% since January 2003 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid in line with the local norm
vs 180 nearby sales within a year · semi-detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Caversham Primary School 17-min walk
- The Hill Primary School 4-min walk
- Reading station 2.2km
- Blackhouse Wood 924m
- The coast (coastline) 44.2km
- Lake 1.6km
- Pond 303m
- Kennet And Avon Canal 2.6km
- River Thames 1.6km
- Public Park 224m
- Playing Field 352m
- True Food Community Co-Op 493m
- Buckingham Drive (N-Bound) 70m
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, 2.2km 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
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
Around average for England & Wales — 92 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 52, Buckingham Drive, Reading £216,000 · 2005
- 2, Buckingham Drive, Reading £295,000 · 2009
- 44, Buckingham Drive, Reading £203,000 · 2012
- 54, Buckingham Drive, Reading £180,000 · 2020
- 9, Burcombe Way, Reading £186,500 · 2008
- 20, Buckingham Drive, Reading £352,500 · 2022
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