5 Brookside Way, Southampton, SO18 2LQ

5 Brookside Way is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Southampton (SO18 2LQ). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (December 2021) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since July 2009. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

Untraded for 20 years, with the last transfer in September 2006. At 88 m² it's 16.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (76 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. Across 2003–2006, sale prices on this property compounded at 0.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £257,000 sits 90.4% above the 2006 sale of £135,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£143/sq ft) was about 29.9% below the postcode norm.