3 Cotton Lane, Manchester, M20 4GL

3 Cotton Lane is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Manchester (M20 4GL). 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 (June 2016) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 138 m² the property is well over the postcode median (101 m² across 12 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. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2000–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £540,000 sits 66.7% above the 2017 sale of £324,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£218/sq ft) was about 38.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 9 years ago, in August 2017.