The Quadrangle, Apartment 24, 6 Albany Road, Manchester, M21 0AW

The Quadrangle is a two-bedroom detached house in Manchester (M21 0AW). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. At 60 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across The Quadrangle (60–91 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (February 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 60 m² it's 18.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (74 m² median across 22 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£465/sq ft) was about 55% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £300,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.