Pearl Assurance House, Flat 4, 32 Queen Street, Wakefield, WF1 1LE

Pearl Assurance House is an end-of-terrace house in Wakefield (WF1 1LE). It has a recorded floor area of 32 m² (around 344 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1976-1982. At 32 m² this is the 7th smallest of 24 units on EPC record in Pearl Assurance House, where floor areas span 19–78 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £134,000 sits 176.3% above the 2021 sale of £48,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£141/sq ft) was about 41% below the postcode norm. Sold May 2021 for £48,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.