12 Ivar Gardens, Lychpit, Basingstoke, RG24 8YD

12 Ivar Gardens is a three-bedroom detached house in Lychpit, Basingstoke, Basingstoke (RG24 8YD). It has a recorded floor area of 82 m² (around 883 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2014. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Held since August 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 82 m² it's 26.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (112 m² median across 45 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £426,000 sits 384.1% above the 1996 sale of £88,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£100/sq ft) was about 56.8% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.