17 The Vale, Ovingdean, Brighton, BN2 7AB

17 The Vale is a five-bedroom detached house in Ovingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7AB). It has a recorded floor area of 243 m² (around 2616 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2018) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76).

At 243 m² the property is well over the postcode median (144 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2019, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,033,000 is 32.9% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£297/sq ft) was about 37.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £777,000 in August 2019.