8 Helford Gardens, West End, Southampton, SO18 3LX

8 Helford Gardens is an end-of-terrace house in West End, Southampton, Southampton (SO18 3LX). It has a recorded floor area of 27 m² (around 291 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band A. At 27 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 30 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 25–82 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 27 m² it sits well below the postcode median (44 m² across 29 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. Across 2002–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £108,000 is 22.7% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£303/sq ft) was about 24.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £88,000 in May 2020.