40 New Road, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester, LE8 0SL

40 New Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Kibworth Harcourt, Leicester, Leicester (LE8 0SL). It has a recorded floor area of 181 m² (around 1948 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows a C (score 80), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in March 2017 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 85). Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 181 m² the property is well over the postcode median (131 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2017–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £658,000 is 13.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£299/sq ft) was about 50% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £582,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.