51 Vale Road, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1GD

51 Vale Road is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Portslade, Brighton, Brighton (BN41 1GD). It has a recorded floor area of 111 m² (around 1195 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (November 2014); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 111 m² it's 18.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (94 m² median across 21 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £463,000 sits 59.7% above the 2015 sale of £290,000. On the market in April 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.