5 Carnation Close, Leicester Forest East, Leicester, LE3 3QU

5 Carnation Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Leicester Forest East, Leicester, Leicester (LE3 3QU). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2010. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£337/sq ft) was about 128.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £536,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.