The Hawthorns, Flat 10, Arncliffe Rise, Oldham, OL4 2LZ

The Hawthorns is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Oldham (OL4 2LZ). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 56). The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Across 1999–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 21.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £188,000 is 12.1% below the 2007 sale of £214,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£166/sq ft) was about 69.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It hasn't traded since January 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. 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. At 120 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 32 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs).