2 Edgerly Gardens, Portsmouth, PO6 2SX

2 Edgerly Gardens is a six-bedroom semi-detached house in Portsmouth (PO6 2SX). It has a recorded floor area of 170 m² (around 1830 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2013) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 2008 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 170 m² the property is well over the postcode median (108 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1997–2008, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £400,000 sits 70.2% above the 2008 sale of £235,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£128/sq ft) was about 22% below the postcode norm.