31 Glenfield Avenue, Southampton, SO18 4EQ

31 Glenfield Avenue is a detached house in Southampton (SO18 4EQ). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2024) returns a B (score 83), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in March 2015 the rating was D, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor.

Held since December 1995 — that's 30 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 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £423,000 sits 415.9% above the 1995 sale of £82,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£53/sq ft) was about 76.3% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.