Palm Lodge, Flat 8, 2 Watkin Road, Bournemouth, BH5 1HP

Palm Lodge is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH5 1HP). It has a recorded floor area of 57 m² (around 614 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band A. At 57 m² this is the 7th smallest of 8 units on EPC record in Palm Lodge, where floor areas span 24–111 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 57 m² it's 23.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (46 m² median across 23 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 78% of similar EPCs). Across 2005–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£284/sq ft) was about 39.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £174,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.