97 Skipton Road, Harrogate, HG1 4LJ

97 Skipton Road is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Harrogate (HG1 4LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since April 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1995–2003, sale prices on this property compounded at 32.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £252,000 sits 86.7% above the 2003 sale of £135,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£104/sq ft) was about 28.7% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: subdivision approved in 2015. Past consents include subdivision, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 121 m² it's 18.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 30 EPCs).