28 Hillside Crescent, Leigh On Sea, SS9 1EN

28 Hillside Crescent is a five-bedroom detached house in Leigh On Sea (SS9 1EN). It has a recorded floor area of 238 m² (around 2562 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in July 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 238 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£498/sq ft) was about 70.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £1,275,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.