7 Birch Lea Close, Bury, BL9 9RZ

7 Birch Lea Close is a detached house in Bury (BL9 9RZ). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (December 2015) returns a high B (score 90), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 100). The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 66 m² it sits well below the postcode median (105 m² across 12 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Across 1996–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £217,000 sits 66.9% above the 2007 sale of £130,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£183/sq ft) was about 51.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.