First Floor Flat, 90 Chichester Road, Portsmouth, PO2 0AH

First Floor Flat is a mid-terrace house in Portsmouth (PO2 0AH). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Poor; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average and main heating dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

At 62 m² it's 15.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (73 m² median across 58 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £181,000 is 12.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£241/sq ft) was about 77.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £161,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.