9a, Cowper Road, Merton, London, SW19 1AA

9a is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Merton, London, London (SW19 1AA). It has a recorded floor area of 76 m² (around 818 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. At 76 m² this is the 44th smallest of 48 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 34–85 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (48 versus a best of 80). The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 64). The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced London HPI: 8.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£668/sq ft) was about 60.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 76 m² the property is well over the postcode median (51 m² across 47 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2005. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold August 2022 for £546,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.