Flat 3, 38 Saffrons Road, Eastbourne, BN21 1DT

Flat 3 is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Eastbourne (BN21 1DT). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 66). The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since March 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £465,000 sits 227.5% above the 1997 sale of £142,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£94/sq ft) was about 50.4% below the postcode norm. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs).