Swallows Nest, Crescent Close, Widemouth Bay, Bude, EX23 0AE

Swallows Nest is a detached house in Widemouth Bay, Bude, Bude (EX23 0AE). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£536/sq ft) was about 339.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 85 m² it sits well below the postcode median (150 m² across 3 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £489,950 in April 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.