27 Hobbs Drive, Boxted, Colchester, CO4 5RZ

27 Hobbs Drive is a three-bedroom detached house in Boxted, Colchester, Colchester (CO4 5RZ). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

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 101 m² it's 21.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (83 m² median across 14 EPCs). Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£345/sq ft) was about 21.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £375,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.