487 Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff, CF5 1BB

487 Cowbridge Road East is a mid-terrace house in Cardiff (CF5 1BB). It has a recorded floor area of 172 m² (around 1851 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since March 2016. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

At 172 m² the property is well over the postcode median (45 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £400,000 in July 2022. Across the public record there are 5 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 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£216/sq ft) was about 51.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.