15 Essex Gardens, Leigh On Sea, SS9 4HG

15 Essex Gardens is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Leigh On Sea (SS9 4HG). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a D (score 62), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since April 2014. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Average to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

At 126 m² the property is well over the postcode median (83 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2014–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£377/sq ft) was about 19.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold May 2022 for £511,250. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.