Flat 1, 49 Elmes Road, Bournemouth, BH9 2SX

Flat 1 is a detached house in Bournemouth (BH9 2SX). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 62 m² it sits well below the postcode median (89 m² across 26 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £155,000 sits 314.4% above the 1995 sale of £37,400. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£56/sq ft) was about 70.8% below the postcode norm.