51 Downside Avenue, Worthing, BN14 0EX

51 Downside Avenue is a five-bedroom detached house in Worthing (BN14 0EX). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced Worthing HPI: 7.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£382/sq ft) was about 21.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 146 m² the property is well over the postcode median (65 m² across 26 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 planning records sit against the property, 4 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £601,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.