Flat 3, 37 Portchester Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8JT

Flat 3 is a semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH8 8JT). It has a recorded floor area of 25 m² (around 269 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2023) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, main heating went from Very Poor to Average; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 67). Main heating runs on electricity. At 25 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 7 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 22–48 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 7 units on file.

At 25 m² it sits well below the postcode median (52 m² across 51 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£386/sq ft) was about 66.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold February 2022 for £104,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.