21 Cherry Orchard, Southminster, CM0 7HE

21 Cherry Orchard is a three-bedroom detached house in Southminster (CM0 7HE). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. The latest certificate (March 2017) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 87).

At 81 m² the property is well over the postcode median (61 m² across 54 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £335,000. 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£384/sq ft) was about 80.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.