203 Rake Lane, Wallasey, CH45 5DQ

203 Rake Lane is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Wallasey (CH45 5DQ). It has a recorded floor area of 145 m² (around 1559 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2011) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). The latest certificate is from February 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 18.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £180,000 is 24.1% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£93/sq ft) was about 15.5% below the postcode norm. At 145 m² the property is well over the postcode median (39 m² across 47 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.