Red House, Back Hills, Botesdale, Diss, IP22 1DW

Red House is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Botesdale, Diss, Diss (IP22 1DW). It has a recorded floor area of 100 m² (around 1075 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2010) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 43). Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. At 100 m² it's 16.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (86 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2001–2011, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £289,000 sits 50.5% above the 2011 sale of £192,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£179/sq ft) was about 23.1% below the postcode norm.