8 Croft Terrace, Coundon, Bishop Auckland, DL14 8PQ

8 Croft Terrace is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Coundon, Bishop Auckland, Bishop Auckland (DL14 8PQ). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since January 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 130 m² it's 27.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 15 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). Across 2003–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 32.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £110,000 is 17% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£67/sq ft) was about 35.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.