23 Newton Road, Southampton, SO18 1NJ

23 Newton Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Southampton (SO18 1NJ). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 732 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (January 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 68 m² it sits well below the postcode median (98 m² across 26 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sold March 2021 for £316,500. 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. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £364,000 is 15% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£432/sq ft) was about 155% above the typical sold price in the postcode.