10 Birch Hill Crescent, Rochdale, OL12 9QF

10 Birch Hill Crescent is a semi-detached house in Rochdale (OL12 9QF). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2013) shows a C (score 72). When first surveyed in April 2013 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 84). The latest certificate is from June 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 101 m² the property is well over the postcode median (75 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £239,000 sits 246.4% above the 1997 sale of £69,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£63/sq ft) was about 63.5% below the postcode norm.