5 Brockley Crescent, Ipswich, IP1 5HT

5 Brockley Crescent is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Ipswich (IP1 5HT). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1012 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2014) returns a high B (score 89), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 93). The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Held since November 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 94 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £266,000 sits 71.6% above the 2007 sale of £155,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£153/sq ft) was about 24.4% below the postcode norm.