5 Blake Road, Croydon, CR0 6UH

5 Blake Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Croydon (CR0 6UH). It has a recorded floor area of 131 m² (around 1410 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

At 131 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Sold September 2019 for £662,500. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2019, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £758,000 is 14.4% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£470/sq ft) was about 105.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.