24 Hazel Coppice, Lea, Preston, PR2 1XG

24 Hazel Coppice is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Lea, Preston, Preston (PR2 1XG). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump.

At 49 m² it sits well below the postcode median (71 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £137,500. 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. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £171,000 is 24.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£261/sq ft) was about 106.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.