9 Brooke Forest, Fairlands, Guildford, GU3 3JH

9 Brooke Forest is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Fairlands, Guildford, Guildford (GU3 3JH). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1188 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2011) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 110 m² it's 28.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (86 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2005–2011, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £540,000 sits 56.5% above the 2011 sale of £345,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£290/sq ft) was about 28.8% below the postcode norm.