197 Crouch Street, Basildon, SS15 4BL

197 Crouch Street is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Basildon (SS15 4BL). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

Untraded for 27 years, with the last transfer in October 1999. At 104 m² the property is well over the postcode median (59 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 1995–1999, sale prices on this property compounded at 12% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £384,000 sits 362.7% above the 1999 sale of £83,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£74/sq ft) was about 65.2% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: new windows approved in 2007. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.