37 Hares Bank, New Addington, Croydon, CR0 0ET

37 Hares Bank is a semi-detached house in New Addington, Croydon, Croydon (CR0 0ET). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since January 1999 — that's 28 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 92 m² it's 27.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (72 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £378,000 sits 334.5% above the 1999 sale of £87,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£88/sq ft) was about 63% below the postcode norm.