43 Blanford Road, Reigate, RH2 7DP

43 Blanford Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Reigate (RH2 7DP). It has a recorded floor area of 144 m² (around 1550 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2025) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in March 2010 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good and main heating went from Average to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include outbuildings.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.7% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £966,000 is 14.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£545/sq ft) was about 61.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 144 m² it sits well below the postcode median (226 m² across 12 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2025. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £845,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.