Flat 4, 21 Cecil Road, Bournemouth, BH5 1DX

Flat 4 is a semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH5 1DX). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 581 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. At 54 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 6 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 45–94 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 23 years, with the last transfer in March 2003. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. At 54 m² it's 20% larger than the typical home in the postcode (45 m² median across 31 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1997–2003, sale prices on this property compounded at 24.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £178,000 sits 50.8% above the 2003 sale of £118,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£203/sq ft) was about 18.6% below the postcode norm.