46 Medbourne Close, Blandford Forum, DT11 7UA

46 Medbourne Close is a three-bedroom detached house in Blandford Forum (DT11 7UA). It has a recorded floor area of 74 m² (around 797 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2013) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (November 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 74 m² it's 16.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (64 m² median across 30 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £351,000 is 21.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£362/sq ft) was about 62.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £288,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.