18 Benfield Crescent, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 2DB

18 Benfield Crescent is a detached house in Portslade, Brighton, Brighton (BN41 2DB). It has a recorded floor area of 169 m² (around 1819 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2021) returns a high B (score 88), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 92). Main heating runs on electricity.

It hasn't traded since May 1996, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 169 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £796,000 sits 592.2% above the 1996 sale of £115,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£63/sq ft) was about 81% below the postcode norm. 4 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.