3 Downlands Avenue, Worthing, BN14 9HD

3 Downlands Avenue is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Worthing (BN14 9HD). It has a recorded floor area of 99 m² (around 1066 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since March 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump.

At 99 m² it's 28.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (77 m² median across 32 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£377/sq ft) was about 70.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £402,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.