42 Westbury Road, Southend On Sea, SS2 4DP

42 Westbury Road is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Southend On Sea (SS2 4DP). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 48 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 20 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 45–139 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C across 20 units on file. The latest certificate (January 2016) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). The latest certificate is from January 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 48 m² it sits well below the postcode median (87 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Sold October 2022 for £187,500. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2000–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£363/sq ft) was about 103.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.