Apartment 202, 5 Anchor Street, Ipswich, IP3 0BP

Apartment 202 is a property in Ipswich (IP3 0BP). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 860 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. At 80 m² this is the 26th smallest of 34 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 32–101 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (August 2010) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from August 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 80 m² it's 19.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (67 m² median across 33 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2005–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at -2.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£186/sq ft) was about 34.5% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £160,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.