Flat 7, 8 Oriental Place, Brighton, BN1 2LJ

Flat 7 is a mid-terrace house in Brighton (BN1 2LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 20 m² (around 215 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2020) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (November 2008); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. At 20 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 15 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 19–60 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (35 versus a best of 72).

At 20 m² it sits well below the postcode median (32 m² across 69 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. Sold June 2022 for £190,000. 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 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£883/sq ft) was about 236.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.