Apartment 5, 1 Whitsun Avenue, Salford, M7 1AJ

Apartment 5 is a detached house in Salford (M7 1AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 398 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2012 onwards and council tax band A. At 37 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 8 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 12–102 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (67 versus a best of 85). The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it C (March 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 37 m² it sits well below the postcode median (88 m² across 25 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. Across 2012–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£289/sq ft) was about 69.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £115,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.