5 Grand Crescent, Rottingdean, Brighton, BN2 7GL

5 Grand Crescent is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Rottingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7GL). It has a recorded floor area of 99 m² (around 1066 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2012) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include notable views.

Untraded for 30 years, with the last transfer in August 1996. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 99 m² it's 16.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (119 m² median across 27 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £525,000 sits 400.2% above the 1996 sale of £104,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£98/sq ft) was about 63% below the postcode norm.