Flat 8, 48 St Stephens Road, Cheltenham, GL51 3AD

Flat 8 is a semi-detached house in Cheltenham (GL51 3AD). It has a recorded floor area of 35 m² (around 377 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. At 35 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (35–95 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (44 versus a best of 74). The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 35 m² it sits well below the postcode median (103 m² across 12 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold June 2021 for £99,000. 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 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £148,000 is 49.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£263/sq ft) was about 15.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.