28 Austen Place, Lower Turk Street, Alton, GU34 1FZ

28 Austen Place is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Alton (GU34 1FZ). It has a recorded floor area of 44 m² (around 474 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 2019. At 44 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (44–99 m²). Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. The latest certificate (August 2022) returns a high B (score 85), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The rating has held steady at B across 2 certificates since July 2018. Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff.

Across 2018–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at -0.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £301,000 is 20.8% below the 2021 sale of £380,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£802/sq ft) was about 81.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 44 m² it sits well below the postcode median (73 m² across 55 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £380,000 in January 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.