Lower Flat, 49 Blandford Road, Beckenham, BR3 4NE

Lower Flat is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Beckenham (BR3 4NE). It has a recorded floor area of 50 m² (around 538 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 50 m² it sits well below the postcode median (74 m² across 31 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Last sale on file: £320,000 in September 2022. Across the public record there are 5 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. Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£595/sq ft) was about 121.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.