21 Centre Drive, Newmarket, CB8 8AN

21 Centre Drive is a five-bedroom detached house in Newmarket (CB8 8AN). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (January 2016) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £490,000 is 16.7% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£279/sq ft) was about 41.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (92 m² across 33 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. One planning record on file: partial demolition approved in 2006. Past consents include partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold October 2020 for £420,000.