16 Beechley Drive, Cardiff, CF5 3SF

16 Beechley Drive is an end-of-terrace house in Cardiff (CF5 3SF). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 156 m² the property is well over the postcode median (98 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2010–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at -5.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £199,000 sits 116.9% above the 2015 sale of £91,750. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£55/sq ft) was about 59.8% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in July 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.