48 Festival Gardens, Tolleshunt D Arcy, Maldon, CM9 8TX

48 Festival Gardens is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Maldon (CM9 8TX). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2022) returns a high B (score 85), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in October 2013 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. Main heating runs on oil.

Sale prices here have outpaced Maldon HPI: 6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£425/sq ft) was about 141.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2004. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 83 m² it's 16.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (71 m² median across 47 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 87% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £380,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.