Southlands, New Road, Elmswell, Bury St Edmunds, IP30 9BT

Southlands is a detached house in Elmswell, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP30 9BT). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

At 148 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £609,000 is 12.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£339/sq ft) was about 57.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold October 2021 for £540,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.