78 Kingston Road, Staines Upon Thames, TW18 4NL

78 Kingston Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Staines Upon Thames (TW18 4NL). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2011. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 78 m² the property is well over the postcode median (56 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £402,000 is 12.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£426/sq ft) was about 20.2% below the postcode norm. Sold August 2021 for £357,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.