5 Lovelace Road, Oxford, OX2 8LP

5 Lovelace Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Oxford (OX2 8LP). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 960 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2008) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 51). The latest certificate is from November 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Untraded for 17 years, with the last transfer in May 2009. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 89 m² it's 18.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (110 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £534,000 sits 90.7% above the 2009 sale of £280,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£292/sq ft) was about 25.5% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2020. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.