43 Dale Close, Stanway, Colchester, CO3 0FQ

43 Dale Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Stanway, Colchester, Colchester (CO3 0FQ). It has a recorded floor area of 116 m² (around 1252 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2008) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 61). The latest certificate is from November 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in November 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 116 m² the property is well over the postcode median (73 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £373,000 sits 265.7% above the 1998 sale of £102,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£81/sq ft) was about 63.4% below the postcode norm.