7 Chine Close, Locks Heath, Southampton, SO31 6WA

7 Chine Close is a detached house in Locks Heath, Southampton, Southampton (SO31 6WA). It has a recorded floor area of 210 m² (around 2260 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2014) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 26 years, with the last transfer in April 2000. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 210 m² the property is well over the postcode median (123 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £521,000 sits 189.4% above the 2000 sale of £180,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£80/sq ft) was about 71.1% below the postcode norm. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2003.