Apartment 1, 20 Upperton Road, Eastbourne, BN21 1AG

Apartment 1 is a one-bedroom detached house in Eastbourne (BN21 1AG). It has a recorded floor area of 43 m² (around 463 sq ft). At 43 m² this is the 51st smallest of 70 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 31–91 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since September 2020. Between certificates, floor efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. Main heating runs on electricity: electricity, unspecified tariff.

At 43 m² the property is well over the postcode median (32 m² across 69 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2021–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£394/sq ft) was about 16.4% below the postcode norm. Sold May 2022 for £182,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.