Basement Flat, 6 St Margarets Place, Brighton, BN1 2FD

Basement Flat is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Brighton (BN1 2FD). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since August 2014. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 50 m² it sits well below the postcode median (119 m² across 9 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£479/sq ft) was about 260.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £258,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.