17 Waterhouse Lane, Southampton, SO15 8QB

17 Waterhouse Lane is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Southampton (SO15 8QB). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 775 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2010) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since July 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. At 72 m² it's 18.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 30 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £264,000 is 36.1% above the 2010 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£250/sq ft) was about 51.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.