4 Orchard Cottages, Marlborough Close, Ryde, PO33 1AP

4 Orchard Cottages is a four-bedroom detached house in Ryde (PO33 1AP). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1371 sq ft) and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2009) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. The latest certificate is from July 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 30 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2000–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 33.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £432,000 is 47.7% above the 2007 sale price.