74 Derby Road, Southampton, SO14 0DL

74 Derby Road is a mid-terrace house in Southampton (SO14 0DL). It has a recorded floor area of 204 m² (around 2196 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump.

Held since November 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Sale prices here have outpaced Southampton HPI: 78.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £282,000 sits 65.9% above the 2004 sale of £170,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£77/sq ft) was about 18.9% below the postcode norm. At 204 m² the property is well over the postcode median (101 m² across 24 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2003. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.