3 Botley Gardens, Southampton, SO19 0SW

3 Botley Gardens is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Southampton (SO19 0SW). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2011. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 90 m² the property is well over the postcode median (55 m² across 41 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £250,000 in October 2020. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1997–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £281,000 is 12.4% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£258/sq ft) was about 34.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.