The Grove, Flat 6, 9 Balcombe Road, Poole, BH13 6DX

The Grove is a four-bedroom detached house in Poole (BH13 6DX). It has a recorded floor area of 260 m² (around 2799 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2017) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in April 2013 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. At 260 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 3 units on EPC record in The Grove, where floor areas span 242–283 m². The building's EPC ratings span C to B, with this unit at the top. Other recorded features include a balcony.

At 260 m² the property is well over the postcode median (131 m² across 34 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£457/sq ft) was about 51.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £1,280,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.