41 Castlesteads Drive, Carlisle, CA2 7XE

41 Castlesteads Drive is a four-bedroom detached house in Carlisle (CA2 7XE). It has a recorded floor area of 107 m² (around 1152 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2017) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in April 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and lighting dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a balcony and outbuildings. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 107 m² the property is well over the postcode median (80 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £194,000 in July 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2010–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £252,000 is 29.9% above the 2021 sale price.