16 Edwina Close, Southampton, SO19 7BJ

16 Edwina Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Southampton (SO19 7BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Held since May 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced Southampton HPI: 11.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £476,000 sits 132.3% above the 2002 sale of £204,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£135/sq ft) was about 34% below the postcode norm. At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2014. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.