43 Portland Road, Blackpool, FY1 4ED

43 Portland Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Blackpool (FY1 4ED). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1033 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (October 2015) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2015); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Last sale on file: £145,000 in June 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. At 96 m² it's 20.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (80 m² median across 26 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £160,000 is 10.3% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£140/sq ft) was about 56.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.