87 The Street, Hawkinge, Folkestone, CT18 7DE

87 The Street is a five-bedroom detached house in Hawkinge, Folkestone, Folkestone (CT18 7DE). It has a recorded floor area of 165 m² (around 1776 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2012) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 2006 — that's 19 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 165 m² the property is well over the postcode median (98 m² across 31 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. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 1998–2006, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £493,000 sits 82.6% above the 2006 sale of £270,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£152/sq ft) was about 40.4% below the postcode norm.