1b, Kingdon Avenue, Prickwillow, Ely, CB7 4UL

1b is a one-bedroom detached house in Prickwillow, Ely, Ely (CB7 4UL). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (December 2022) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in May 2015 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £385,000 is 15.6% below the 2022 sale of £456,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£403/sq ft) was about 169.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 105 m² it's 23.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (85 m² median across 28 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £456,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.