3 Hope Cottages, Walnut Tree Lane, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9RG

3 Hope Cottages is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Loose, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 9RG). It has a recorded floor area of 54 m² (around 581 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2025) shows a C (score 71). When first surveyed in October 2014 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 91). Period features are noted in the property record. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 54 m² it sits well below the postcode median (168 m² across 10 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 70% of similar EPCs). Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£516/sq ft) was about 50.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £300,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.