9 Benfleet Close, Sutton, SM1 3SD

9 Benfleet Close is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Sutton (SM1 3SD). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2017) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (86 m² across 36 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £680,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£497/sq ft) was about 21.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.