23 Hollingbury Road, Brighton, BN1 7JB

23 Hollingbury Road is a seven-bedroom mid-terrace house in Brighton (BN1 7JB). It has a recorded floor area of 136 m² (around 1464 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows a C (score 71). When first surveyed in January 2010 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 84).

Held since May 2010 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 136 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 47 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 7 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 5 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £599,000 sits 152.2% above the 2010 sale of £237,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£162/sq ft) was about 31.7% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: HMO conversion approved in 2021. Past consents include HMO conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.