1 Pennine View Close, Carlisle, CA1 3GW

1 Pennine View Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Carlisle (CA1 3GW). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. At 69 m² this is the 16th smallest of 45 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 60–117 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (December 2015) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 2002 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £104,000 is 30.1% above the 2002 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£108/sq ft) was about 16.3% below the postcode norm.