1 Plas Bach Cottages, Pontyates, Llanelli, SA15 5UT

1 Plas Bach Cottages is a semi-detached house in Pontyates, Llanelli, Llanelli (SA15 5UT). It has a recorded floor area of 33 m² (around 355 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in April 2010 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 115), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 12.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £148,000 is 50.7% below the 2021 sale of £300,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. Sold July 2021 for £300,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.