5 Alma Drive, Chelmsford, CM1 1TW

5 Alma Drive is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Chelmsford (CM1 1TW). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 846 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2011) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from May 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 79 m² this is the 18th smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 37–94 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (24 versus a best of 83).

Held since July 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 79 m² the property is well over the postcode median (53 m² across 23 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. Today's modelled estimate of £228,000 sits 51.8% above the 2011 sale of £150,150. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£178/sq ft) was about 21.9% below the postcode norm.