Park House, Flat 4, 18 College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4HZ

Park House is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Eastbourne (BN21 4HZ). It has a recorded floor area of 43 m² (around 463 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. At 43 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Park House (43–88 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to D, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (49 versus a best of 68). Other recorded features include a balcony and a conservatory. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in July 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and main heating went from Poor to Average; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 43 m² it sits well below the postcode median (64 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £135,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2019. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £158,000 is 17% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£292/sq ft) was about 47.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.