Earls Court, Flat 12, 9 Gervis Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3ED

Earls Court is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH1 3ED). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. At 88 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 10 units on EPC record in Earls Court, where floor areas span 84–130 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (September 2023) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 60).

6 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£274/sq ft) was about 54% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £260,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.