18 Wallace Apartments, Sherborne Street, Cheltenham, GL52 2JZ

18 Wallace Apartments is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Cheltenham (GL52 2JZ). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 928 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. At 86 m² this is the 23rd smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 53–91 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (66 versus a best of 83). Other recorded features include a conservatory. The latest certificate (July 2009) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 73). The latest certificate is from July 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 86 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 23 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 2000–2004, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £278,000 sits 63.5% above the 2004 sale of £170,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£183/sq ft) was about 17.1% below the postcode norm.