Chermont Court, Flat 2, The Street, East Preston, Littlehampton, BN16 1HT

Chermont Court is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in East Preston, Littlehampton, Littlehampton (BN16 1HT). It has a recorded floor area of 91 m² (around 980 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2022 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2022) returns a high B (score 85), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in May 2019 the rating was D, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Good to Very Good, roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good and window efficiency went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 95).

Held since January 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 91 m² the property is well over the postcode median (61 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 75% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £350,000 sits 366.7% above the 1997 sale of £75,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£77/sq ft) was about 63.7% below the postcode norm.