7 The Mews, Tower Gate, Preston, Brighton, BN1 6TU

7 The Mews is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Preston, Brighton, Brighton (BN1 6TU). It has a recorded floor area of 118 m² (around 1270 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2012) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 73). The latest certificate is from January 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 118 m² it's 15.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (102 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £529,000 sits 468.8% above the 1996 sale of £93,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£73/sq ft) was about 68.4% below the postcode norm.