Newlands, Ovingdean Road, Ovingdean, Brighton, BN2 7AA

Newlands is a five-bedroom detached house in Ovingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7AA). It has a recorded floor area of 398 m² (around 4284 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows a C (score 72). When first surveyed in November 2008 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and main heating dropped from Very Good to Good. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal.

At 398 m² the property is well over the postcode median (143 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 71% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Last sale on file: £1,520,000 in March 2021. Across the public record there are 5 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,986,000 is 30.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£355/sq ft) was about 64.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.