3 Bismarck Street, York, YO26 4XY

3 Bismarck Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in York (YO26 4XY). It has a recorded floor area of 46 m² (around 495 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows a C (score 71). The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since October 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 2-band jump.

Held since November 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £199,000 sits 373.8% above the 1996 sale of £42,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£85/sq ft) was about 42.3% below the postcode norm. At 46 m² it's 25.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (62 m² median across 50 EPCs).