51 Wakefield Road, Swillington, Leeds, LS26 8DT

51 Wakefield Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Swillington, Leeds, Leeds (LS26 8DT). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since March 2015. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Good to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £316,000 is 31.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£155/sq ft) was about 22.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £241,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.