1 Dennistead Crescent, Leeds, LS6 3PU

1 Dennistead Crescent is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Leeds (LS6 3PU). It has a recorded floor area of 138 m² (around 1485 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

Held since May 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 138 m² it's 15% larger than the typical home in the postcode (120 m² median across 25 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £379,000 sits 359.4% above the 1999 sale of £82,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£56/sq ft) was about 66.9% below the postcode norm.