Flat, 2 Park Street, Newbury, RG14 1EA

Flat is a semi-detached house in Newbury (RG14 1EA). It has a recorded floor area of 47 m² (around 506 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2023) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since September 2012. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.

Held since December 1997 — that's 28 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. At 47 m² the property is well over the postcode median (36 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £179,000 sits 198.3% above the 1997 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£119/sq ft) was about 74.5% below the postcode norm.