2 Colenso Road, Fareham, PO16 7SW

2 Colenso Road is a semi-detached house in Fareham (PO16 7SW). It has a recorded floor area of 99 m² (around 1066 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2015) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 4-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 99 m² it's 17.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (84 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £232,000 sits 300% above the 1997 sale of £58,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£54/sq ft) was about 62.8% below the postcode norm.