23 Reservoir Terrace, Chester, CH3 5DD

23 Reservoir Terrace is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Chester (CH3 5DD). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 549 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2017) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since December 2009. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good; while lighting dropped from Very Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump.

At 51 m² it's 25% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (68 m² median across 7 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold November 2021 for £185,000. Across the public record there are 7 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £226,000 is 22.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£337/sq ft) was about 100.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.