8 Ashurst Close, Bolton, BL2 3PE

8 Ashurst Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Bolton (BL2 3PE). It has a recorded floor area of 124 m² (around 1335 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (December 2014) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 124 m² it's 18.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 8 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£285/sq ft) was about 50.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £380,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.