St James, 4, 8 Nevill Road, Rottingdean, Brighton, BN2 7HG

St James is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Rottingdean, Brighton, Brighton (BN2 7HG). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1967-1975. At 52 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 4 units on EPC record in St James, where floor areas span 51–54 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (January 2018) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band.

At 52 m² it sits well below the postcode median (89 m² across 24 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: new windows approved in 2004. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£536/sq ft) was about 114.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £300,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.