The Laurels, Old Bristol Road, East Brent, Highbridge, TA9 4HU

The Laurels is a detached house in East Brent, Highbridge, Highbridge (TA9 4HU). It has a recorded floor area of 140 m² (around 1507 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in February 2021 the rating was G, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 35.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £433,000 is 13.4% below the 2022 sale of £500,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£332/sq ft) was about 60.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 140 m² the property is well over the postcode median (106 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). 8 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 2 refused. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £500,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.