16 Belmont Avenue, Springhead, Oldham, OL4 4RL

16 Belmont Avenue is a three-bedroom detached house in Springhead, Oldham, Oldham (OL4 4RL). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since April 2014. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 159 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £362,000 is 22.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£172/sq ft) was about 15.1% below the postcode norm. Sold February 2021 for £295,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.