5 Buarth Road, Aberystwyth, SY23 1LR

5 Buarth Road is a seven-bedroom semi-detached house in Aberystwyth (SY23 1LR). It has a recorded floor area of 185 m² (around 1995 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2010) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 52). The latest certificate is from June 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record.

It hasn't traded since December 1995, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 185 m² the property is well over the postcode median (74 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £342,000 sits 256.3% above the 1995 sale of £96,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£48/sq ft) was about 68.9% below the postcode norm.