5a, Goldings Road, Loughton, IG10 2QR

5a is a semi-detached house in Loughton (IG10 2QR). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 775 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows a G (score 20), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2000 — that's 27 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 72 m² it's 19.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (89 m² median across 26 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £520,000 sits 227% above the 2000 sale of £159,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£205/sq ft) was about 40.3% below the postcode norm.