47 Pains Road, Southsea, PO5 1HE

47 Pains Road is a two-bedroom detached house in Southsea (PO5 1HE). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since August 2012. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a balcony.

At 79 m² it sits well below the postcode median (119 m² across 52 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £270,000 in January 2022. Across the public record there are 4 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 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£318/sq ft) was about 176.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2022.