40 Balaclava Street, St Thomas, Swansea, SA1 8BR

40 Balaclava Street is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in St. Thomas, Swansea, Swansea (SA1 8BR). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in January 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Sold March 2021 for £140,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £189,000 is 35% above the 2021 sale price. One planning record on file: an extension refused in 2006.