24 Southfields Road, Eastbourne, BN21 1BZ

24 Southfields Road is a six-bedroom detached house in Eastbourne (BN21 1BZ). It has a recorded floor area of 299 m² (around 3218 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2010) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in December 2008 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 55). The latest certificate is from September 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe.

Untraded for 17 years, with the last transfer in October 2009. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. At 299 m² the property is well over the postcode median (146 m² across 11 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. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2009, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £933,000 is 18.4% above the 2009 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£245/sq ft) was about 24.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.