23 Portland Gate, Portbury Close, Wirral, CH62 4SG

23 Portland Gate is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Wirral (CH62 4SG). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1996-2002. At 42 m² this is the 6th smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 40–68 m². The building's EPC ratings span C to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (November 2022) shows a C (score 79), near the top of the C band. The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since October 2012. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 81).

Sold October 2021 for £80,000. Across the public record there are 5 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. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £102,000 is 27.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£177/sq ft) was about 23% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 42 m² it's 22.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (54 m² median across 23 EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.