21 Lower Howsell Road, Malvern, WR14 1DX

21 Lower Howsell Road is a detached house in Malvern (WR14 1DX). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in June 2020 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

At 85 m² it's 16.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (73 m² median across 9 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 89% of similar EPCs). Across 2020–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 62.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £407,000 is 19.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£372/sq ft) was about 224.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2021 at £340,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.