68 Cottage Grove, Southsea, PO5 1EW

68 Cottage Grove is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Southsea (PO5 1EW). It has a recorded floor area of 215 m² (around 2314 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2017) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a loft. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Untraded for 19 years, with the last transfer in February 2007. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 215 m² the property is well over the postcode median (141 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 1998–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 15.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £479,000 sits 65.2% above the 2007 sale of £290,000. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2004.