40 Chafen Road, Southampton, SO18 1BB

40 Chafen Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Southampton (SO18 1BB). It has a recorded floor area of 118 m² (around 1270 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in October 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). Other recorded features include outbuildings.

At 118 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2014–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£260/sq ft) was about 67.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2022 for £330,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.