12 Albany Street, Halifax, HX3 9JE

12 Albany Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Halifax (HX3 9JE). It has a recorded floor area of 96 m² (around 1034 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (November 2011) shows a G (score 14), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2011); the latest reading is 3 bands lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to F (score 35). Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from November 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 96 m² it's 27.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (76 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £124,000 sits 254.3% above the 1998 sale of £35,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£34/sq ft) was about 56% below the postcode norm.