31 Vale Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1GD

31 Vale Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Portslade, Brighton, Brighton (BN41 1GD). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2019) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £465,000 in May 2021. 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. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £585,000 is 25.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£300/sq ft) was about 20.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode.