1 Gatekeeper Close, Pinewood, Ipswich, IP8 3NQ

1 Gatekeeper Close is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Pinewood, Ipswich, Ipswich (IP8 3NQ). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 861 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Sale prices here have outpaced Ipswich HPI: 6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £290,000 is 16% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£290/sq ft) was about 42.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 80 m² the property is well over the postcode median (53 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £250,000 in September 2021. Across the public record there are 4 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.