20 Hopewell Street, Gloucester, GL1 4HG

20 Hopewell Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Gloucester (GL1 4HG). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1014 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (August 2010) shows an F (score 27), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 44). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from August 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since January 2006 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. At 94 m² the property is well over the postcode median (71 m² across 37 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 1998–2006, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £130,000 sits 64.6% above the 2006 sale of £79,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£78/sq ft) was about 18.5% below the postcode norm.