1 North View, Merton, London, SW19 4UJ

1 North View is a detached house in Merton, London, London (SW19 4UJ). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band H. The latest certificate (January 2020) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it D (January 2020); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced London HPI: 8.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £5,136,000 is 31.5% below the 2021 sale of £7,500,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£12,669/sq ft) was about 1998.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 55 m² it sits well below the postcode median (297 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 14 planning records sit against the property, 12 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: July 2021 at £7,500,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.