The Hazels, Hearts Delight, Borden, Sittingbourne, ME9 8HX

The Hazels is a four-bedroom detached house in Borden, Sittingbourne, Sittingbourne (ME9 8HX). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 144 m² it's 24% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (190 m² median across 8 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2016, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £562,000 is 33.8% above the 2016 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£271/sq ft) was about 35.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 10 years since the last transfer (April 2016).