22 Helena Square, Southwark, London, SE16 5XP

22 Helena Square is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Southwark, London, London (SE16 5XP). It has a recorded floor area of 41 m² (around 441 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band C. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. At 41 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 31 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 39–103 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (June 2022) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in February 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 41 m² it's 29.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (58 m² median across 30 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Sold September 2022 for £325,000. Across the public record there are 8 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£736/sq ft) was about 80% above the typical sold price in the postcode.