38a, Flat, Bath Road, Buxton, SK17 6HJ

38a is a detached house in Buxton (SK17 6HJ). It has a recorded floor area of 53 m² (around 570 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (January 2011) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in July 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 59). The latest certificate is from January 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2011 — that's 15 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. At 53 m² it's 20.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (44 m² median across 33 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2000–2011, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £146,000 is 21.7% above the 2011 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£210/sq ft) was about 101.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2012.