45 Hillcrest, Brynna, Pontyclun, CF72 9SJ

45 Hillcrest is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brynna, Pontyclun, Pontyclun (CF72 9SJ). It has a recorded floor area of 91 m² (around 980 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 91 m² the property is well over the postcode median (70 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £272,000 is 36% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£204/sq ft) was about 43.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £200,000 in October 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.