7 Blackberry Road, Stanway, Colchester, CO3 0RT

7 Blackberry Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Stanway, Colchester, Colchester (CO3 0RT). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 121 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 37 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £430,000 sits 98.2% above the 2003 sale of £217,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£167/sq ft) was about 16.3% below the postcode norm.