79 Preston Road, Weymouth, DT3 6PY

79 Preston Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Weymouth (DT3 6PY). It has a recorded floor area of 174 m² (around 1873 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2022) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in April 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

At 174 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £575,000 in December 2022. 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. Across 2010–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£307/sq ft) was about 60% above the typical sold price in the postcode.