9 Dartmouth Close, Brighton, BN2 4HZ

9 Dartmouth Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Brighton (BN2 4HZ). It has a recorded floor area of 112 m² (around 1206 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2019) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since March 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.

At 112 m² it's 24.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (90 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £427,000 is 20.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£294/sq ft) was about 20.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £355,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.