5 Merganser Close, Apley, Telford, TF1 6SG

5 Merganser Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Apley, Telford, Telford (TF1 6SG). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 166 m² the property is well over the postcode median (126 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £458,000 is 18.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£216/sq ft) was about 40.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £386,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.