31 Margam Avenue, Southampton, SO19 2QL

31 Margam Avenue is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Southampton (SO19 2QL). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since January 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 £297,000 sits 545.7% above the 1995 sale of £46,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£60/sq ft) was about 67.8% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an annexe and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 71 m² it's 22.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (92 m² median across 10 EPCs).