Yew Tree Cottage, Green Lane, Langley, Maidstone, ME17 3JS

Yew Tree Cottage is a two-bedroom detached house in Langley, Maidstone, Maidstone (ME17 3JS). It has a recorded floor area of 82 m² (around 883 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 82 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £372,500 in March 2019. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1999–2019, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £417,000 is 11.9% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£422/sq ft) was about 207.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.