Flat 8, 18 Carlton Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3TG

Flat 8 is an end-of-terrace house in Bournemouth (BH1 3TG). It has a recorded floor area of 25 m² (around 269 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2015) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 54), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. The latest certificate is from May 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 25 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 9 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 24–72 m². The building's EPC ratings span G to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (19 versus a best of 71).

At 25 m² it sits well below the postcode median (61 m² across 66 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at -1.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £102,000 sits 67.2% above the 2022 sale of £61,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£227/sq ft) was about 37.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold December 2022 for £61,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.