16a, Boscombe Cliff Road, Bournemouth, BH5 1JL

16a is a four-bedroom detached house in Bournemouth (BH5 1JL). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2012) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since February 2011. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average, hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 57), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from June 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 130 m² it's 24.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (105 m² median across 14 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Across 2012–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £397,000 is 24.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£229/sq ft) was about 26.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £320,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.