Alma Cottage, South Street, Portslade, Brighton, BN41 2LE

Alma Cottage is a four-bedroom detached house in Portslade, Brighton, Brighton (BN41 2LE). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 128 m² the property is well over the postcode median (82 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Most recent transfer: October 2021 at £655,000. 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. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a basement excavation and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£475/sq ft) was about 110.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.