Flat 5, 43 Sea Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, BH5 1DJ

Flat 5 is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Bournemouth (BH5 1DJ). It has a recorded floor area of 25 m² (around 269 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. At 25 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (25–35 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to D, with this unit at the bottom. Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (September 2019) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (November 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

At 25 m² it sits well below the postcode median (48 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £108,000 sits 54.3% above the 2022 sale of £70,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£260/sq ft) was about 69.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £70,000 in June 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.