5 Fairview Cottages, High Banks, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0EQ

5 Fairview Cottages is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Loose, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 0EQ). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (January 2013) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 2000–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £345,000 is 13.5% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£514/sq ft) was about 47.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 years since the last transfer (July 2016).