17 Dunlop Drive, Melling, Liverpool, L31 1BX

17 Dunlop Drive is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Melling, Liverpool, Liverpool (L31 1BX). It has a recorded floor area of 114 m² (around 1227 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2015) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in February 2010 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 114 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 15 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. Today's modelled estimate of £218,000 sits 61.5% above the 2010 sale of £135,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£110/sq ft) was about 29.9% below the postcode norm.