9 Crucible Close, Romford, RM6 4PZ

9 Crucible Close is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Romford (RM6 4PZ). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 829 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2023) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Held since May 1998 — 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 77 m² the property is well over the postcode median (58 m² across 39 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 £394,000 sits 447.2% above the 1998 sale of £72,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£87/sq ft) was about 66.5% below the postcode norm.