18 Litchford Road, New Milton, BH25 5BQ

18 Litchford Road is a five-bedroom detached house in New Milton (BH25 5BQ). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

At 113 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 1996–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £506,000 is 15% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£362/sq ft) was about 47.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £440,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.