3 Longhill Close, Ovingdean, Brighton, BN2 7AX

3 Longhill Close is a two-bedroom detached house in Ovingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7AX). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 66 m² it sits well below the postcode median (134 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£760/sq ft) was about 149.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £540,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.