26 Lake Road East, Cardiff, CF23 5NN

26 Lake Road East is a four-bedroom detached house in Cardiff (CF23 5NN). It has a recorded floor area of 195 m² (around 2099 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 64), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a balcony. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 195 m² it's 27% larger than the typical home in the postcode (154 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, partial demolition and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £1,006,000 is 29.8% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£369/sq ft) was about 23.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2019 for £775,000.