3 Grove Farm Croft, Leeds, LS16 6DE

3 Grove Farm Croft is a two-bedroom detached house in Leeds (LS16 6DE). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include a conservatory. The latest certificate (February 2018) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (March 2009); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump.

At 48 m² it's 22.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (62 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2018–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 15% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £290,000 is 22.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£460/sq ft) was about 109.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £237,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.