20 Houghton Street, Royton, Oldham, OL2 5AG

20 Houghton Street is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Royton, Oldham, Oldham (OL2 5AG). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 936 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (January 2022) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since May 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 87 m² it's 29.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (67 m² median across 12 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £135,000 in August 2022. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £186,000 is 37.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£144/sq ft) was about 30.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.