5 Swillington Lane, Swillington, Leeds, LS26 8QE

5 Swillington Lane is a detached house in Swillington, Leeds, Leeds (LS26 8QE). It has a recorded floor area of 137 m² (around 1475 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 61), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since November 1996, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 137 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 6 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 £323,000 sits 438.3% above the 1996 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£41/sq ft) was about 82.8% below the postcode norm.