7 Castle Avenue, Okeford Fitzpaine, Blandford Forum, DT11 0RY

7 Castle Avenue is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Okeford Fitzpaine, Blandford Forum, Blandford Forum (DT11 0RY). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. The home occupies a corner plot.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£247/sq ft) was about 29.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 128 m² the property is well over the postcode median (87 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £340,000. Across the public record there are 4 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.