Hope Cottage, Worthing Road, Rustington, Littlehampton, BN16 3PS

Hope Cottage is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Rustington, Littlehampton, Littlehampton (BN16 3PS). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 756 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 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 March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since September 2009 — that's 17 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 70 m² the property is well over the postcode median (44 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 1995–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £345,000 sits 50% above the 2009 sale of £230,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£304/sq ft) was about 36.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.