Flat 1, 7 Elphinstone Road, Southsea, PO5 3HP

Flat 1 is a semi-detached house in Southsea (PO5 3HP). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 753 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 70 m² this is the 7th smallest of 12 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 33–272 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C across 12 units on file. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76).

Sold December 2021 for £196,000. Across the public record there are 6 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. At 70 m² it's 29.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (54 m² median across 39 EPCs). Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £218,000 is 11.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£260/sq ft) was about 45.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.