The Firs, Westerham Road, Keston, BR2 6HE

The Firs is a two-bedroom detached house in Keston (BR2 6HE). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (October 2021) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 79 m² it sits well below the postcode median (122 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £643,000 is 10.9% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£682/sq ft) was about 39.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2022 for £580,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.