9 Osborne Cottages, School Road, Messing, Colchester, CO5 9TJ

9 Osborne Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Messing, Colchester, Colchester (CO5 9TJ). It has a recorded floor area of 111 m² (around 1195 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2012) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 91), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from November 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 111 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2005. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £440,000 is 20.5% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£305/sq ft) was about 40.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 8 years ago, in March 2018.