5 Linnets, Basildon SS16 5ES

Semi-Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 105 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £10,500 · £10,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£6216.1 yrs+3.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£7750+ yrs+3.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£8350+ yrs+4.1 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£6550+ yrs+3.1 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,254
per year at grade C
£967
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £222 a year — a 2.1% annual return on £10,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,731 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 April 2024£565,000
22 March 2021£340,000
28 May 2019£310,000

Estimated today: £608,227 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Linnets: 16 sales since 1995 · £392,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Chapel Hill Primary School & NurseryPrimary0.4 mi
Kingswood Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.5 mi
Lee Chapel Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Woodlands SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.26 · below average (2023/24)
De La Salle SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.20 · average (2023/24)
The James Hornsby SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.32 · below average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

10.1
crimes a month
91
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021299, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Linnets

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
61.9
average score
C
most common grade
+10.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.