12 Lime Place, Laindon, Basildon, SS15 4DN

12 Lime Place is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Laindon, Basildon, Basildon (SS15 4DN). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. At 50 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 14 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 49–72 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (41 versus a best of 76). The latest certificate (December 2021) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2010. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 50 m² it's 15.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (59 m² median across 13 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£492/sq ft) was about 101.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £265,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.