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Get started1 Forest Rise is a detached house in Desford, Leicester, Leicester (LE9 9DX). It has a recorded floor area of 186 m² (around 2002 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Untraded for 23 years, with the last transfer in September 2003. At 186 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 29 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 90% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £593,000 sits 108.1% above the 2003 sale of £285,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£142/sq ft) was about 25.5% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2022.
1 Forest Rise's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 14 Sept 2025
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Proposed single storey rear extension
1 Forest Rise valuation sits well clear of the typical sold price in this postcode.
£593,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£285,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
1 Forest Rise outperforms the street on habitable rooms by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£1,532
Street avg £2,535
Floor Area
186 m²
Street avg 104 m²
Habitable Rooms
9 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.4dB

30 September 2003Most recent
£285,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in LE9 9DX: £251,750 (2025–2022).
Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
11.0 t/year
Street avg 4.4 t/year
LE9 9QR
Bosworth College — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Bosworth Academy. 2 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.3dB
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