5 Valentines Drive, Colchester, CO4 0AH

5 Valentines Drive is a detached house in Colchester (CO4 0AH). It has a recorded floor area of 112 m² (around 1206 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2014) returns a high B (score 88), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 30 years, with the last transfer in October 1996. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 112 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £332,000 sits 345.6% above the 1996 sale of £74,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£62/sq ft) was about 64% below the postcode norm.