Forsythia Cottage, Linchmere Road, Haslemere, GU27 3QW

Forsythia Cottage is a detached house in Haslemere (GU27 3QW). It has a recorded floor area of 182 m² (around 1962 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2010) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 56). The latest certificate is from May 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 16 years, with the last transfer in July 2010. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. At 182 m² the property is well over the postcode median (117 m² across 14 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2020. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2010, sale prices on this property compounded at 12.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £693,000 is 45.9% above the 2010 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£242/sq ft) was about 15.3% below the postcode norm.