56 Southern Drive, Loughton, IG10 3BX

56 Southern Drive is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Loughton (IG10 3BX). It has a recorded floor area of 102 m² (around 1098 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include notable views.

At 102 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 34 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Sold August 2021 for £600,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2006. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£546/sq ft) was about 76% above the typical sold price in the postcode.