Flat 3, 1 Park Road, Ipswich, IP1 3SS

Flat 3 is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Ipswich (IP1 3SS). It has a recorded floor area of 69 m² (around 743 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. Tenure is freehold. At 69 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (69–149 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (42 versus a best of 73). The latest certificate (July 2021) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in July 2017 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor.

Last sale on file: £235,000 in February 2022. Across the public record there are 6 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. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£316/sq ft) was about 77.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.