5 Botoner Road, Coventry, CV1 2DA

5 Botoner Road is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Coventry (CV1 2DA). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2018) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

Held since August 1996 — that's 30 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. Today's modelled estimate of £198,000 sits 465.7% above the 1996 sale of £35,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£31/sq ft) was about 76.5% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 105 m² it's 20.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (87 m² median across 29 EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.