20 King Street, Chester, CH1 2AH

20 King Street is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Chester (CH1 2AH). It has a recorded floor area of 246 m² (around 2648 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (April 2018) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in January 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). Period features are noted in the property record.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£406/sq ft) was about 60.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 246 m² the property is well over the postcode median (133 m² across 26 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. 6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. Last sale on file: £1,075,000 in July 2022. Across the public record there are 4 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.