18 Birchwood, Chineham, Basingstoke, RG24 8TY

18 Birchwood is an end-of-terrace house in Chineham, Basingstoke, Basingstoke (RG24 8TY). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 1996 — that's 30 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 101 m² the property is well over the postcode median (58 m² across 23 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 £298,000 sits 451.9% above the 1996 sale of £54,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£50/sq ft) was about 80.1% below the postcode norm.