Mallard Grange, Flat A, 45 Sea Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, BH5 1DL

Mallard Grange is a semi-detached house in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Bournemouth (BH5 1DL). It has a recorded floor area of 19 m² (around 205 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. At 19 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Mallard Grange (19–36 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to D, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (February 2019) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 19 m² it sits well below the postcode median (71 m² across 24 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £120,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£587/sq ft) was about 186.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.