3 Hudson Cottages, Shepherds Road, Bartley, Southampton, SO40 2LH

3 Hudson Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Bartley, Southampton, Southampton (SO40 2LH). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2009) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 58). The latest certificate is from February 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 142 m² it's 25.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (113 m² median across 25 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £475,000 is 46.2% above the 2009 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£213/sq ft) was about 19.6% below the postcode norm.