77 Preston Road, Weymouth, DT3 6PY

77 Preston Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Weymouth (DT3 6PY). It has a recorded floor area of 57 m² (around 614 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows a G (score 5), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

It hasn't traded since May 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 57 m² it's 27.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (79 m² median across 17 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 1997–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 16.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £739,000 is 42.1% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£848/sq ft) was about 345.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.