37 Bournewood Close, Downswood, Maidstone, ME15 8TJ

37 Bournewood Close is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Downswood, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 8TJ). It has a recorded floor area of 46 m² (around 495 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (August 2022) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 46 m² it sits well below the postcode median (73 m² across 25 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £308,000. 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 2000–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£622/sq ft) was about 128.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2004.