45 High Street, Gravesend, DA11 0AY

45 High Street is a mid-terrace house in Gravesend (DA11 0AY). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 581 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (July 2020) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. At 54 m² this is the 13th smallest of 16 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 2–102 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 16 units on file.

Across 2021–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 50% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £166,000 is 68.4% below the 2021 sale of £525,000, an unusual pattern given regional price growth and worth checking against the EPC condition. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£903/sq ft) was about 407.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 54 m² the property is well over the postcode median (30 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Sold December 2021 for £525,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.