25 Dene Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BL

25 Dene Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Ashurst, Southampton, Southampton (SO40 7BL). It has a recorded floor area of 151 m² (around 1625 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include attached land beyond the plot. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows a G (score 5), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 62), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg.

At 151 m² the property is well over the postcode median (115 m² across 11 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. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 4 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£517/sq ft) was about 78.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2022 for £840,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.