20 Harvest Ridge, Leybourne, West Malling, ME19 5LY

20 Harvest Ridge is a four-bedroom detached house in Leybourne, West Malling, West Malling (ME19 5LY). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a C (score 71). When first surveyed in August 2015 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 81).

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £611,000 is 13.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£418/sq ft) was about 58.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 120 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 70% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £540,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.