42 Brighton Road, Southport, PR8 4DD

42 Brighton Road is a seven-bedroom detached house in Southport (PR8 4DD). It has a recorded floor area of 209 m² (around 2250 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2021) returns a high B (score 87), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Period features are noted in the property record. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 209 m² the property is well over the postcode median (118 m² across 54 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 5 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2011. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £540,000 is 31.7% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£182/sq ft) was about 65% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £410,000 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.