281a, London Road, Portsmouth, PO2 9HE

281a is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Portsmouth (PO2 9HE). It has a recorded floor area of 111 m² (around 1195 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 111 m² this is the largest unit on EPC record across the building (29–111 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (51 versus a best of 78). The latest certificate (April 2017) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump.

At 111 m² the property is well over the postcode median (62 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £200,000 is 16.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£144/sq ft) was about 17.7% below the postcode norm. Sold March 2021 for £172,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.