8 Barracuda Flats, Shutta Road, Looe, PL13 1BJ

8 Barracuda Flats is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Looe (PL13 1BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 398 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in April 2010 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 37 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 5 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 28–63 m². The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 37 m² it sits well below the postcode median (69 m² across 15 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2016–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £141,000 is 12.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£314/sq ft) was about 48.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £125,000 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.