17 Alma Road, Bournemouth, BH9 1AB

17 Alma Road is a one-bedroom detached house in Bournemouth (BH9 1AB). It has a recorded floor area of 43 m² (around 463 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2015) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from March 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 43 m² this is the 13th smallest of 42 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 31–128 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (33 versus a best of 83).

It hasn't traded since November 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 43 m² it's 24.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (57 m² median across 41 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £156,000 is 25.8% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£268/sq ft) was about 29.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.