103 Church Road, Tiptree, Colchester, CO5 0AB

103 Church Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Tiptree, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 114 m² (around 1227 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2017); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Held since October 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 114 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £517,000 sits 271.9% above the 1999 sale of £139,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£113/sq ft) was about 64.7% below the postcode norm.