9 Ship Street Gardens, Brighton, BN1 1AJ

9 Ship Street Gardens is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Brighton (BN1 1AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 72 m² (around 774 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2009) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 48). The latest certificate is from April 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a basement. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since July 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 72 m² it's 18.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1998–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £457,000 sits 52.4% above the 2009 sale of £299,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£387/sq ft) was about 24.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.