2 Malmesbury Place, Southampton, SO15 5FS

2 Malmesbury Place is a one-bedroom detached house in Southampton (SO15 5FS). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2019) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2009. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump.

Sold July 2022 for £281,000. Across the public record there are 4 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. At 78 m² it's 21.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (100 m² median across 10 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1997–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£335/sq ft) was about 106.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.