68 Townend is an end-of-terrace house in Presteigne (LD8 2DW). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2017) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £210,000 is 20% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£208/sq ft) was about 42.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £175,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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68 Townend sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
68 Townend has no planning applications on record.
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68 Townend has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 2002.
£210,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.7% per year over 19 years.
£175,000
Growth on file: 7.7% per year over 19 years.
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On epc rating, 68 Townend runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£2,244
Street avg £1,760
Floor Area
78 m²
Street avg 71 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
41.8dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
23 August 2021Most recent
£175,000
+36.2%over 3 years25 September 2017
£128,500
+195.1%over 14 years18 November 2002
£43,550
Median price across the last 5 sales in LD8 2DW: £167,500 (2024–2022).

CO₂ Emissions
5.4 t/year
Street avg 3.3 t/year
Townend — bus stop.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
35.4dB