136 Brighton Road, Hooley, Coulsdon, CR5 3EF

136 Brighton Road is a detached house in Hooley, Coulsdon, Coulsdon (CR5 3EF). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2019) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (January 2015); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 7.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £594,000 is 30.9% below the 2022 sale of £860,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£707/sq ft) was about 132.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 113 m² the property is well over the postcode median (59 m² across 51 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £860,000. 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. 10 planning records sit against the property, 8 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include partial demolition and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.