9 Blackman Close, Hoo, Rochester, ME3 9LF

9 Blackman Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hoo, Rochester, Rochester (ME3 9LF). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (June 2014) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. Earlier certificates rated it C (March 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 88), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 92 m² the property is well over the postcode median (47 m² across 31 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £282,000 in October 2022. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£285/sq ft) was about 57.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.