7 Albertine Close, Stanway, Colchester, CO3 0JJ

7 Albertine Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Stanway, Colchester, Colchester (CO3 0JJ). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since January 2012. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 59 m² it's 22.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (77 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £282,000 is 19% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£373/sq ft) was about 54.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £237,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.