38 Berea Road, Torquay, TQ1 1JP

38 Berea Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Torquay (TQ1 1JP). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2017) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in August 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a balcony.

At 113 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£214/sq ft) was about 49.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £260,000 in February 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.