Swan Quay, Flat 2, 25 Vespasian Road, Southampton, SO18 1DU

Swan Quay is a mid-terrace house in Southampton (SO18 1DU). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2018) returns a B (score 81), comfortably above the UK average. At 60 m² this is the 11th smallest of 20 units on EPC record in Swan Quay, where floor areas span 40–81 m². The building's EPC ratings span C to B, with this unit at the top.

Held since March 1998 — that's 28 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 60 m² it's 15.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (52 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £207,000 sits 218.5% above the 1998 sale of £65,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£101/sq ft) was about 53.2% below the postcode norm.