17 Southend Road, Hockley, SS5 4PZ

17 Southend Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Hockley (SS5 4PZ). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 861 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since December 2008. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Period features are noted in the property record.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£389/sq ft) was about 56.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 80 m² it's 23.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (65 m² median across 29 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Last sale on file: £335,000 in April 2021. Across the public record there are 6 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 a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.