3 The French Apartments, De Courcel Road, Brighton, BN2 5RZ

3 The French Apartments is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Brighton (BN2 5RZ). It has a recorded floor area of 63 m² (around 678 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. At 63 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (63–151 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C across 11 units on file. The latest certificate (August 2018) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 73).

At 63 m² it sits well below the postcode median (127 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Sold December 2021 for £284,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£419/sq ft) was about 19.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.