26b, Braintree Road, Portsmouth, PO6 3RE

26b is a semi-detached house in Portsmouth (PO6 3RE). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 861 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band A. At 80 m² this is the 31st smallest of 35 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 38–94 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 26 years, with the last transfer in February 2001. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 80 m² it's 29% larger than the typical home in the postcode (62 m² median across 34 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £137,000 sits 1051.3% above the 2001 sale of £11,900. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£14/sq ft) was about 91.3% below the postcode norm.