12 Almond Crescent, Rossendale, BB4 6EB

12 Almond Crescent is a semi-detached house in Rossendale (BB4 6EB). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 19 years, with the last transfer in May 2007. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. Sale prices here have outpaced Rossendale HPI: 13.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £250,000 is 48.8% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£111/sq ft) was about 15.7% below the postcode norm. At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (46 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.