12 Basing Close, Maidstone, ME15 7UZ

12 Basing Close is a one-bedroom detached house in Maidstone (ME15 7UZ). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 398 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. At 37 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 23 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 36–51 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (August 2020) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76).

Sold November 2021 for £130,000. 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. At 37 m² it's 22.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (48 m² median across 22 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £146,000 is 12.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£326/sq ft) was about 72.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.