80 Botley Road, Oxford, OX2 0BU

80 Botley Road is a five-bedroom mid-terrace house in Oxford (OX2 0BU). It has a recorded floor area of 147 m² (around 1582 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in March 2012 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

Untraded for 30 years, with the last transfer in July 1996. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 147 m² the property is well over the postcode median (75 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £608,000 sits 508% above the 1996 sale of £100,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£63/sq ft) was about 94.3% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: HMO conversion approved in 2003. Past consents include HMO conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.