5 The Parade, Southampton Road, Cadnam, Southampton, SO40 2NG

5 The Parade is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Cadnam, Southampton, Southampton (SO40 2NG). It has a recorded floor area of 45 m² (around 484 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows a C (score 73). The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 2007 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 45 m² it's 29.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (64 m² median across 23 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 87% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £343,000 is 46.6% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£483/sq ft) was about 50.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.