24 Valley Drive, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 9TJ

24 Valley Drive is a three-bedroom detached house in Loose, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME15 9TJ). It has a recorded floor area of 70 m² (around 755 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (March 2011) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). The latest certificate is from March 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

At 70 m² it sits well below the postcode median (102 m² across 15 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, a porch and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£622/sq ft) was about 115.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold January 2021 for £470,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.