3 Brookhouse Gardens, Blackburn, BB1 6PJ

3 Brookhouse Gardens is a semi-detached house in Blackburn (BB1 6PJ). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2016) returns a high B (score 90), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in March 2016 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 100).

It hasn't traded since March 1996, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 90 m² it's 20.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (114 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £162,000 sits 237.9% above the 1996 sale of £47,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£49/sq ft) was about 19.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.