Mr Sanders, North End, Southminster, CM0 7DN

Mr Sanders is a semi-detached house in Southminster (CM0 7DN). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 775 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since September 2020. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 53). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 72 m² it sits well below the postcode median (123 m² across 37 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £302,000 is 16.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£334/sq ft) was about 67.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £258,850. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.