2 Braintree Close, Derby, DE21 4DR

2 Braintree Close is a semi-detached house in Derby (DE21 4DR). It has a recorded floor area of 99 m² (around 1066 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2015) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1997 — that's 29 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 99 m² it's 17.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (85 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £169,000 sits 397.1% above the 1997 sale of £34,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£32/sq ft) was about 72.1% below the postcode norm.