3 Bank Lane, Blackburn, BB1 2AX

3 Bank Lane is a semi-detached house in Blackburn (BB1 2AX). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 113 m² it's 28.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 18 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2001–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 22.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £162,000 is 29.6% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£103/sq ft) was about 17.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2021.