Flat 5, 7 Campbell Road, Bournemouth, BH1 4EP

Flat 5 is a semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH1 4EP). It has a recorded floor area of 33 m² (around 355 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 33 m² this is the 6th smallest of 8 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 18–47 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to D, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (49 versus a best of 66). The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (April 2014); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 33 m² it's 29.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (47 m² median across 64 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£334/sq ft) was about 81.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2022 at £118,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.