Avon Lodge, Hillborough Crescent, Southsea, PO5 2AN

Avon Lodge is a seven-bedroom detached house in Southsea (PO5 2AN). It has a recorded floor area of 300 m² (around 3229 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 300 m² the property is well over the postcode median (180 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 1996–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £896,000 is 41.1% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£197/sq ft) was about 20.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in June 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years.