13 St James S Square, Bournemouth, BH5 2BX

13 St James S Square is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH5 2BX). It has a recorded floor area of 119 m² (around 1281 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 119 m² the property is well over the postcode median (69 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Sold March 2021 for £370,000. 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 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £409,000 is 10.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£289/sq ft) was about 193.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.