78 Chatham Road, Sandling, Maidstone, ME14 3BB

78 Chatham Road is a semi-detached house in Sandling, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME14 3BB). It has a recorded floor area of 129 m² (around 1389 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 3-band jump.

It hasn't traded since March 1995, a hold of 31 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 129 m² it's 25.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (103 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £372,000 sits 726.7% above the 1995 sale of £45,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£32/sq ft) was about 84.6% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory, an annexe and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.