20 Colemere Gardens, Highcliffe, Christchurch, BH23 5AS

20 Colemere Gardens is a three-bedroom detached house in Highcliffe, Christchurch, Christchurch (BH23 5AS). It has a recorded floor area of 111 m² (around 1195 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (March 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 111 m² it's 15.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (96 m² median across 24 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1998–2023, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£477/sq ft) was about 46.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £570,000 in October 2023.