5 Parkside Quarter, Colchester, CO1 1EA

5 Parkside Quarter is a two-bedroom detached house in Colchester (CO1 1EA). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. At 65 m² this is the 10th smallest of 25 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 40–166 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (45 versus a best of 79). The latest certificate (February 2015) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 62). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 65 m² it sits well below the postcode median (100 m² across 24 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2002–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £231,000 is 14.1% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£289/sq ft) was about 43.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 11 years ago, in April 2015.