Apartment 3, 74 Bradshaw Road, Bolton, BL2 3EW

Apartment 3 is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Bolton (BL2 3EW). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (October 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 85 m² it sits well below the postcode median (133 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2017–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £110,000 is 22.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£98/sq ft) was about 30.9% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £90,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.