26 London Road, Marks Tey, Colchester, CO6 1BE

26 London Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Marks Tey, Colchester, Colchester (CO6 1BE). It has a recorded floor area of 183 m² (around 1970 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows an F (score 24), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 68), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 183 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £598,000 is 13.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£267/sq ft) was about 54.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £525,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.