2 Elmete Drive, Leeds, LS8 2LA

2 Elmete Drive is a two-bedroom detached house in Leeds (LS8 2LA). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since December 2011. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 92 m² it sits well below the postcode median (136 m² across 29 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Sold May 2022 for £510,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2010. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £561,000 is 10% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£515/sq ft) was about 126% above the typical sold price in the postcode.