8 Barn Close, Borden, Sittingbourne, ME9 8JW

8 Barn Close is a five-bedroom detached house in Borden, Sittingbourne, Sittingbourne (ME9 8JW). It has a recorded floor area of 145 m² (around 1561 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 93), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 145 m² the property is well over the postcode median (109 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £701,000 is 11.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£404/sq ft) was about 68.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £630,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.