20 Elm Avenue, Chattenden, Rochester, ME3 8LY

20 Elm Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Chattenden, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 8LY). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2018) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 3-band jump. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 84 m² the property is well over the postcode median (60 m² across 18 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2019–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 32.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £553,000 is 24.3% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£492/sq ft) was about 103.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £445,000 in December 2020.