24 Birch Lea Close, Bury, BL9 9RZ

24 Birch Lea Close is a three-bedroom detached house in Bury (BL9 9RZ). It has a recorded floor area of 162 m² (around 1744 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. The latest certificate (September 2013) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 162 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 12 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. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £299,000 sits 92.9% above the 2022 sale of £155,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£89/sq ft) was about 39.9% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £155,000 in April 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.