178 Upper Bridge Road, Chelmsford, CM2 0AY

178 Upper Bridge Road is a detached house in Chelmsford (CM2 0AY). It has a recorded floor area of 30 m² (around 323 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band A. At 30 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 29–117 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a C (score 72).

Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £145,000 is 16.4% below the 2021 sale of £173,500, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£537/sq ft) was about 162.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 30 m² it sits well below the postcode median (78 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 87% of similar EPCs). Sold April 2021 for £173,500. 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.