Flat 3, 42 Eastern Crescent, Chelmsford, CM1 4JQ

Flat 3 is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Chelmsford (CM1 4JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 44 m² (around 474 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. Tenure is freehold. At 44 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (44–58 m²). The building's EPC ratings span C to B, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (December 2021) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average.

Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £196,000. Across the public record there are 4 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. At 44 m² it's 24.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (58 m² median across 29 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). Across 2008–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£414/sq ft) was about 56.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.