13 Dale Close, Stanway, Colchester, CO3 0FQ

13 Dale Close is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Stanway, Colchester, Colchester (CO3 0FQ). It has a recorded floor area of 51 m² (around 549 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2010) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from July 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 51 m² it sits well below the postcode median (73 m² across 13 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. Most recent transfer: February 2020 at £157,500. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1998–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £208,000 is 32.1% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£287/sq ft) was about 30% above the typical sold price in the postcode.