21 Vale Drive, Worthing, BN14 0DD

21 Vale Drive is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Worthing (BN14 0DD). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1058 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2009) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 60). The latest certificate is from August 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 2009 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. Sale prices here have outpaced Worthing HPI: 6.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £416,000 sits 69.8% above the 2009 sale of £245,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£232/sq ft) was about 24.4% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2019. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 98 m² it's 24.5% larger than the typical home in the postcode (79 m² median across 17 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs).