Top Flat, 12 Marlborough Road, Salisbury, SP1 3TH

Top Flat is a two-bedroom detached house in Salisbury (SP1 3TH). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 725 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2010) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 19 years, with the last transfer in September 2007. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 67 m² it sits well below the postcode median (107 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Across 2000–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £254,000 is 18.1% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£296/sq ft) was about 33.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.