17a, Meyrick Park Crescent, Bournemouth, BH3 7AG

17a is a two-bedroom detached house in Bournemouth (BH3 7AG). It has a recorded floor area of 138 m² (around 1485 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (July 2013) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Held since October 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 138 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 33 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £620,000 sits 158.3% above the 1998 sale of £240,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£162/sq ft) was about 34.3% below the postcode norm.