5 Colvin Close, Colchester, CO3 4BS

5 Colvin Close is a three-bedroom detached house in Colchester (CO3 4BS). It has a recorded floor area of 156 m² (around 1679 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 156 m² it's 21.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (200 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£354/sq ft) was about 45.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £595,000 in August 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.