25 Birchfield Avenue, Plymouth, PL2 3LA

25 Birchfield Avenue is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Plymouth (PL2 3LA). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 860 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2009) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 80 m² it's 20.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (101 m² median across 15 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2003–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £230,000 sits 55.4% above the 2009 sale of £148,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£172/sq ft) was about 15.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.