18 Chapel Row, Ashley, Newmarket, CB8 9ED

18 Chapel Row is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Ashley, Newmarket, Newmarket (CB8 9ED). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 708 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2010) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since September 2009. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 55). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from July 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 18.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £303,000 is 37.7% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£311/sq ft) was about 63.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 66 m² it sits well below the postcode median (124 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2002. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.