3 Longford Road, Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester, M21 9WP

3 Longford Road is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester, Manchester (M21 9WP). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (December 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and main heating went from Average to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump.

At 128 m² it's 22.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 20 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £511,000 is 11.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£334/sq ft) was about 73.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold August 2022 for £460,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.