17 Eley Drive, Rottingdean, Brighton, BN2 7FH

17 Eley Drive is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Rottingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7FH). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in April 2012 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Poor; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 60 m² it sits well below the postcode median (105 m² across 23 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£588/sq ft) was about 113.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £380,000 in March 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.