8 Beech Road, Fareham, PO15 5DL

8 Beech Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Fareham (PO15 5DL). It has a recorded floor area of 58 m² (around 624 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2013) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. When first surveyed in August 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 4 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Average to Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 88). The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 58 m² it sits well below the postcode median (92 m² across 17 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 76% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £280,000 in September 2022. 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. Across 2010–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £326,000 is 16.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£448/sq ft) was about 132.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.