135a, Southcote Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3SW

135a is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH1 3SW). It has a recorded floor area of 76 m² (around 818 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. At 76 m² this is the 4th smallest of 15 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 33–177 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to C, with this unit at the bottom. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (September 2018) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74).

At 76 m² it sits well below the postcode median (143 m² across 14 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £209,000 is 17.7% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£217/sq ft) was about 60.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £177,500 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.