16 James Street, Leabrooks, Alfreton, DE55 1LY

16 James Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Leabrooks, Alfreton, Alfreton (DE55 1LY). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2015) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 56 m² it sits well below the postcode median (105 m² across 48 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold June 2021 for £126,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £154,000 is 22.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£209/sq ft) was about 46.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.