5 The Square, Well Street, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0EH

5 The Square is a semi-detached house in Loose, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 0EH). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a C (score 76), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in October 2009 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 87).

At 65 m² it sits well below the postcode median (133 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 80% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £350,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£500/sq ft) was about 116% above the typical sold price in the postcode.