17 North Park Road, Bradford, BD9 4NT

17 North Park Road is a six-bedroom semi-detached house in Bradford (BD9 4NT). It has a recorded floor area of 864 m² (around 9300 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2016 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

Held since April 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 864 m² the property is well over the postcode median (62 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £353,000 sits 207% above the 1997 sale of £115,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£12/sq ft) was about 77% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 1 refused.