20 Crown Gardens, Brighton, BN1 3LD

20 Crown Gardens is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Brighton (BN1 3LD). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in July 2011 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 88 m² the property is well over the postcode median (57 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2002–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£678/sq ft) was about 76.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £642,500 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.