53 High Street, Rottingdean, Brighton, BN2 7HE

53 High Street is a semi-detached house in Rottingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7HE). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 639 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2010) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 49). The latest certificate is from February 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 59 m² this is the 8th smallest of 25 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 28–112 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to A, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (35 versus a best of 92).

Today's modelled estimate of £285,000 is 49.1% below the 2016 sale of £560,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£876/sq ft) was about 230.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 59 m² it's 15.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (70 m² median across 24 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 10 years since the last transfer (March 2016).