5 Dene Road, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7BL

5 Dene Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Ashurst, Southampton, Southampton (SO40 7BL). It has a recorded floor area of 112 m² (around 1206 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows a G (score 15), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 112 m² it's 18.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (138 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch, partial demolition and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £627,000 is 16.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£448/sq ft) was about 54.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £540,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.