First Floor Flat, 2 Beauchamp Crescent, Plymouth, PL2 3QE

First Floor Flat is a semi-detached house in Plymouth (PL2 3QE). It has a recorded floor area of 61 m² (around 657 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (January 2022) shows a C (score 72). When first surveyed in September 2011 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good.

Held since February 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £145,000 sits 457.7% above the 1996 sale of £26,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£40/sq ft) was about 69% below the postcode norm. At 61 m² it sits well below the postcode median (107 m² across 16 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 88% of similar EPCs).