45 Badgers Copse, Park Gate, Southampton, SO31 1DW

45 Badgers Copse is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Park Gate, Southampton, Southampton (SO31 1DW). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. At 49 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 20 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 38–92 m². The building's EPC ratings span C to B, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (April 2017) shows a C (score 74). The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since June 2009. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor.

At 49 m² it sits well below the postcode median (75 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£332/sq ft) was about 43.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £175,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.