1 Garden Close, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 1XL

1 Garden Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Portslade, Brighton, Brighton (BN41 1XL). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2017) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 42 m² it's 16% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (50 m² median across 7 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £392,000 is 37.5% above the 2017 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£630/sq ft) was about 60.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 9 years ago, in May 2017.