8 Abbess Terrace, Loughton, IG10 3FJ

8 Abbess Terrace is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Loughton (IG10 3FJ). It has a recorded floor area of 108 m² (around 1163 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007 onwards and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2010) returns a B (score 83), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in May 2010 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The latest certificate is from October 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 108 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 84 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 2010–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £522,000 sits 65.2% above the 2010 sale of £316,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£272/sq ft) was about 22.7% below the postcode norm.