2 South View, Clapham Road, Austwick, Lancaster, LA2 8BE

2 South View is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Austwick, Lancaster, Lancaster (LA2 8BE). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2019) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in February 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 95), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (95 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 2007–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£641/sq ft) was about 144.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £290,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.