13 Fortune Close, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, CM3 1RR

13 Fortune Close is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Chelmsford (CM3 1RR). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 958 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 89 m² it's 15.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2005–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £463,000 is 38.2% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£350/sq ft) was about 54.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in February 2016 and unlisted since — roughly 10 years.