Market Place Chambers, Flat 14, 1 Market Place, Stevenage, SG1 1DD

Market Place Chambers is a semi-detached house in Stevenage (SG1 1DD). It has a recorded floor area of 25 m² (around 269 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1967-1975. At 25 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Market Place Chambers (25–53 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (February 2016) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in April 2015 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Good to Very Good, window efficiency went from Average to Very Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Average. Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 25 m² it sits well below the postcode median (38 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 2016–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at -0.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £111,000 is 26.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£327/sq ft) was about 26.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £88,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.