23 Lamartine Street, Nottingham, NG3 1GQ

23 Lamartine Street is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Nottingham (NG3 1GQ). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1528 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2014) returns a high B (score 89), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in March 2014 the rating was D, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good. The latest certificate is from November 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 2008 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 142 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. Across 1996–2008, sale prices on this property compounded at 11% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £256,000 sits 82.9% above the 2008 sale of £140,000.