57 Fernwood Rise, Brighton, BN1 5ER

57 Fernwood Rise is a four-bedroom detached house in Brighton (BN1 5ER). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include notable views. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (78 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2005. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£398/sq ft) was about 15% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold November 2021 for £617,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.