17b, Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton, BN1 6HA

17b is a semi-detached house in Brighton (BN1 6HA). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. At 92 m² this is the 44th smallest of 52 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 25–302 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 52 units on file. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79).

At 92 m² the property is well over the postcode median (52 m² across 51 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £437,000 in June 2021. Across the public record there are 4 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 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£441/sq ft) was about 18% above the typical sold price in the postcode.