3 St James Road, Emsworth, PO10 7DN

3 St James Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Emsworth (PO10 7DN). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in July 2014 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). Period features are noted in the property record.

Most recent transfer: November 2021 at £360,000. Across the public record there are 4 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. At 104 m² it's 25.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (83 m² median across 26 EPCs). Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £419,000 is 16.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£322/sq ft) was about 15.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused.