1 Sandalwood Drive, St Nicholas At Wade, Birchington, CT7 0PE

1 Sandalwood Drive is a four-bedroom detached house in St. Nicholas At Wade, Birchington, Birchington (CT7 0PE). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a corner plot.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 105 m² it's 16% larger than the typical home in the postcode (91 m² median across 8 EPCs). 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £439,000 is 12.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£345/sq ft) was about 77.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £390,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.