97 James Street, Gillingham, ME7 1DJ

97 James Street is an end-of-terrace house in Gillingham (ME7 1DJ). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2018) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2011 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and main heating went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.

At 98 m² the property is well over the postcode median (69 m² across 66 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. Across 2011–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£225/sq ft) was about 59.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £237,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.