14 Shades Close, Croft, Leicester, LE9 3ZH

14 Shades Close is a three-bedroom detached house in Croft, Leicester, Leicester (LE9 3ZH). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a corner plot and a cul-de-sac position.

Sale prices here have outpaced Leicester HPI: 6.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£265/sq ft) was about 95.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 84 m² the property is well over the postcode median (64 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: tree works refused in 2024. Sold February 2022 for £240,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.