17 The Park Apartments, London Road, Preston, Brighton, BN1 6YL

17 The Park Apartments is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Preston, Brighton, Brighton (BN1 6YL). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2025) returns a B (score 83), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in June 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Good. At 71 m² this is the 23rd smallest of 44 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 55–157 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the top. Other recorded features include a balcony.

Sold June 2021 for £280,000. Across the public record there are 6 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. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 85% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£366/sq ft) was about 38% above the typical sold price in the postcode.