1 Penmon Drive, Wirral, CH61 5UJ

1 Penmon Drive is a semi-detached house in Wirral (CH61 5UJ). It has a recorded floor area of 149 m² (around 1604 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 149 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £294,000 sits 488% above the 1997 sale of £50,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£31/sq ft) was about 82.4% below the postcode norm.