25 Gordon Avenue, Southampton, SO14 6WJ

25 Gordon Avenue is a mid-terrace house in Southampton (SO14 6WJ). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 42 m² this is the 4th smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 24–141 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (June 2023) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (January 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (84 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2018–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£442/sq ft) was about 213% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £200,000 in July 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.