9 Weld Road, Southport, PR8 2BX

9 Weld Road is a seven-bedroom detached house in Southport (PR8 2BX). It has a recorded floor area of 280 m² (around 3014 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (November 2023) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in October 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 280 m² the property is well over the postcode median (47 m² across 31 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2018. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Across 2010–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £616,000 is 35.4% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£151/sq ft) was about 75.8% below the postcode norm. On the market in August 2017 and unlisted since — roughly 9 years.