6 Chestnut Close, Hockley, SS5 5EJ

6 Chestnut Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hockley (SS5 5EJ). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 721 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (March 2018) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Held since November 1996 — that's 30 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 67 m² it's 19.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (83 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £380,000 sits 533.3% above the 1996 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£83/sq ft) was about 68.9% below the postcode norm.