5 Fern Close, Huntington, York, YO32 9PA

5 Fern Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Huntington, York, York (YO32 9PA). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include a conservatory. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (May 2019) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

Held since May 1995 — that's 31 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. At 92 m² the property is well over the postcode median (70 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £327,000 sits 528.8% above the 1995 sale of £52,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£53/sq ft) was about 75.7% below the postcode norm.