Flat 12, 124 Charles Street, Leicester, LE1 1LB

Flat 12 is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Leicester (LE1 1LB). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. At 52 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 32 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 40–172 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the bottom. Other recorded features include a balcony, a basement and a loft. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (October 2017) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 72).

At 52 m² it's 23% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (68 m² median across 56 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£295/sq ft) was about 86.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £165,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.