Flat 4, 31 Queens Road, Lipson, Plymouth, PL4 7PL

Flat 4 is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Lipson, Plymouth, Plymouth (PL4 7PL). It has a recorded floor area of 39 m² (around 420 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (February 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 39 m² this is the 5th smallest of 6 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 31–48 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (26 versus a best of 75).

At 39 m² it sits well below the postcode median (106 m² across 35 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £106,000 sits 63.1% above the 2021 sale of £65,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£155/sq ft) was about 33.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £65,000 in October 2021. Across the public record there are 4 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.