3 Chute Close, Gillingham, ME8 9RW

3 Chute Close is a two-bedroom detached house in Gillingham (ME8 9RW). It has a recorded floor area of 57 m² (around 614 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2020) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 57 m² it's 23% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (74 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2020, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £324,000 is 18.5% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£446/sq ft) was about 121.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2020 at £273,500.