9 Marlborough Road, Oxford, OX1 4LW

9 Marlborough Road is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Oxford (OX1 4LW). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2023) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in May 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump.

Held since May 1995 — that's 31 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. Today's modelled estimate of £577,000 sits 541.1% above the 1995 sale of £90,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£97/sq ft) was about 74.1% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: HMO conversion approved in 2019. Past consents include HMO conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 86 m² it's 15.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 26 EPCs).