Model valuation£417,0008 Busby Close
Local market context
2 Archway Cottages is a semi-detached house in King's Lynn (PE31 8EY). It has a recorded floor area of 102 m² (around 1098 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2025) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 71). Main heating runs on oil.
At 102 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Sold June 2021 for £479,951. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £567,000 is 18.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£437/sq ft) was about 39.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.
Certificate validity
Valid until 6 November 2035
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2 Archway Cottages has more than tripled in price since its earliest registered sale in 2001.
£567,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.1% per year over 20 years.
£479,951
Growth on file: 6.1% per year over 20 years.
22 June 2021Most recent
£479,951
+37.1%over 4 years8 August 2016
£350,000
+4.5%over 6 years14 October 2009
£335,000
+15.5%over 3 years15 February 2006
£290,000
+96.6%over 4 years21 June 2001
£147,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in PE31 8EY: £337,000 (2021–2017).
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On years held, 2 Archway Cottages runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,705
Street avg £3,736
Floor Area
102 m²
Street avg 83 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
4.5 t/year
Street avg 4.3 t/year
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Crime
50/mo
Falling year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
1.0 km
Burnham Market Primary School. 1 school nearby.
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