3 Hillcrest Gardens, York, YO24 1HB

3 Hillcrest Gardens is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in York (YO24 1HB). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2018) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 2-band jump.

At 59 m² it sits well below the postcode median (94 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2006–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £315,000 is 21.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£409/sq ft) was about 103.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £260,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.