10 Gainsborough Road, Ipswich, IP4 2UR

10 Gainsborough Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Ipswich (IP4 2UR). It has a recorded floor area of 222 m² (around 2390 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in February 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since May 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced Ipswich HPI: 7.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £681,000 sits 64.1% above the 2011 sale of £415,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£174/sq ft) was about 45.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 222 m² the property is well over the postcode median (136 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2012.