RG4 6DA
Last sold £365,000 in December 2012
8, Fairfax Close, Reading
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 5 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,163 sq ft / 108 sq m
- EPC rating
- D
- Elevation
- About 48m — higher than about 30% of homes in Reading
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Price history in context
- Dec 2012 — £365,000 · +170.4% · 8 pts behind the UK market
- Jan 1997 — £134,995
What this home might be worth today
£634,000
Estimate range £602,000–£666,000
+73.7% since December 2012 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 44 nearby sales within a year · 5-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Caversham Primary School 718m
- Queen Anne's School 171m
- Reading station 1.3km
- Blackhouse Wood 1.9km
- The coast (coastline) 44.2km
- Lake 743m
- Caversham Lock 1.0km
- Kennet And Avon Canal 1.7km
- River Thames 825m
- Public Park 241m
- Play Area 84m
- Corner Store 423m
- Rufus Isaacs Road (Adj) 22m
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, 1.3km 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: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 4% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Above average for England & Wales — 239 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 12, Fairfax Close, Reading £500,000 · 2021
- 14, Fairfax Close, Reading £600,000 · 2025
- 2, Fairfax Close, Reading £662,500 · 2022
- 1, Fairfax Close, Reading £660,500 · 2023
- 3, Fairfax Close, Reading £540,000 · 2017
- 5, Fairfax Close, Reading £615,000 · 2021
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