48 St James Park Road, Northampton, NN5 5DR

48 St James Park Road is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Northampton (NN5 5DR). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 827 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (June 2010) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 61). The latest certificate is from June 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1996–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 11.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £180,000 is 40.6% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£155/sq ft) was about 28.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.