7 Shortlands Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 6HD

7 Shortlands Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingston Upon Thames (KT2 6HD). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in February 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78).

At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (98 m² across 35 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 a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£649/sq ft) was about 81.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £971,000 in June 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.