5 Oakwood Road, Bournemouth, BH9 3DF

5 Oakwood Road is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Bournemouth (BH9 3DF). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band A. At 52 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 25 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 42–126 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the top. On EPC score it ranks first in the building (69 versus a worst of 46). The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. When first surveyed in May 2012 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average.

At 52 m² it sits well below the postcode median (92 m² across 24 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Last sale on file: £204,000 in March 2021. Across the public record there are 8 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2019. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£364/sq ft) was about 67.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.