5 Vale Road, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0EP

5 Vale Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Loose, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 0EP). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

Untraded for 23 years, with the last transfer in May 2003. At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 6 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 1997–2003, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £538,000 sits 115.2% above the 2003 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£167/sq ft) was about 34.2% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2004. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.