19 Vale Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1GD

19 Vale Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Portslade, Brighton, Brighton (BN41 1GD). It has a recorded floor area of 110 m² (around 1184 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2024) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

Held since September 1999 — that's 27 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 £485,000 sits 573.6% above the 1999 sale of £72,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£61/sq ft) was about 75.3% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 110 m² it's 17% larger than the typical home in the postcode (94 m² median across 21 EPCs).