Kestrels, Chequers Hill, Doddington, Sittingbourne, ME9 0BN

Kestrels is a four-bedroom detached house in Doddington, Sittingbourne, Sittingbourne (ME9 0BN). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 144 m² the property is well over the postcode median (104 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£403/sq ft) was about 30.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £625,000 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.