17 Austen Gardens, Whiteley, Fareham, PO15 7HW

17 Austen Gardens is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Whiteley, Fareham, Fareham (PO15 7HW). It has a recorded floor area of 44 m² (around 474 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2013) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 44 m² it sits well below the postcode median (68 m² across 25 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Most recent transfer: November 2021 at £243,000. Across the public record there are 5 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 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £277,000 is 14% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£513/sq ft) was about 143.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.