9 Banks Way, Bentham, Lancaster, LA2 7JH

9 Banks Way is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Bentham, Lancaster, Lancaster (LA2 7JH). It has a recorded floor area of 28 m² (around 301 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band A. At 28 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (28–85 m²). The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 33 units on file. The latest certificate (June 2012) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from June 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 28 m² it sits well below the postcode median (72 m² across 32 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2018–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£365/sq ft) was about 159.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £110,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.