Belton Court, Flat 1, Belton Road, Southampton, SO19 1DS

Belton Court is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Southampton (SO19 1DS). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1976-1982. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Held since June 1995 — that's 31 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. Today's modelled estimate of £176,000 sits 517.5% above the 1995 sale of £28,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£53/sq ft) was about 71.6% below the postcode norm. At 50 m² it sits well below the postcode median (76 m² across 20 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs).