5 Mersey Road, Blackpool, FY4 1EN

5 Mersey Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Blackpool (FY4 1EN). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2014) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 166 m² the property is well over the postcode median (57 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £168,000 is 19.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£79/sq ft) was about 24.7% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £141,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.