1 De Vere Road, Colchester, CO3 4EA

1 De Vere Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Colchester (CO3 4EA). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2013) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in April 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 87 m² it's 26% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (118 m² median across 26 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 13% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£646/sq ft) was about 208.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £605,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.