4 Castle Hey Close, Bury, BL9 8JQ

4 Castle Hey Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Bury (BL9 8JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 154 m² (around 1658 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 154 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £608,000 is 25.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£293/sq ft) was about 43.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £485,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.