Flat 5, 53 Church Street, Stanground, Peterborough, PE2 8GH

Flat 5 is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Stanground, Peterborough, Peterborough (PE2 8GH). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band A. At 70 m² this is the 23rd smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 33–92 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (October 2018) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (November 2008); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 70 m² it's 29.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (54 m² median across 23 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2018–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£155/sq ft) was about 24.2% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £117,000 in September 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.