Ground Floor Flat, 18 Leighton Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1NT

Ground Floor Flat is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Southville, Bristol, Bristol (BS3 1NT). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (February 2024) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 56).

At 70 m² it sits well below the postcode median (137 m² across 14 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). Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £271,000. Across the public record there are 5 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 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £300,000 is 10.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£360/sq ft) was about 78.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.