8 Benson Road, Southampton, SO15 8PY

8 Benson Road is a semi-detached house in Southampton (SO15 8PY). It has a recorded floor area of 109 m² (around 1173 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2014) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since January 1997 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 109 m² the property is well over the postcode median (39 m² across 12 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. Today's modelled estimate of £257,000 sits 343.1% above the 1997 sale of £58,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£49/sq ft) was about 68.5% below the postcode norm.