28 Cumberland Avenue, Basingstoke, RG22 4BQ

28 Cumberland Avenue is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Basingstoke (RG22 4BQ). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2013) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 79 m² it sits well below the postcode median (114 m² across 34 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2013–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£500/sq ft) was about 102.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £425,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.