10 Blackberry Apartments, Merlin Way, Hartlepool, TS26 0ZE

10 Blackberry Apartments is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Hartlepool (TS26 0ZE). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 605 sq ft) and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2010) returns a high B (score 85), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The latest certificate is from March 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 56 m² this is the 4th smallest of 10 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 56–91 m². The building's EPC ratings span C to B, with this unit at the top. On EPC score it ranks first in the building (85 versus a worst of 78).

Held since March 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 78% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£172/sq ft) was about 31.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.