476 Babbacombe Road, Torquay, TQ1 1HN

476 Babbacombe Road is a semi-detached house in Torquay (TQ1 1HN). It has a recorded floor area of 46 m² (around 500 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2012) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. The latest certificate is from March 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1996–2002, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £343,000 sits 55.9% above the 2002 sale of £220,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£440/sq ft) was about 169.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 6 planning records sit against the property, 6 approved, 0 refused.