2 Dickens Lane, Old Basing, Basingstoke, RG24 7JB

2 Dickens Lane is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Old Basing, Basingstoke, Basingstoke (RG24 7JB). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2016) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 52 m² it's 26.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (71 m² median across 41 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £354,000 is 14.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£554/sq ft) was about 120.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £310,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.