8 Chalfont Close, Leigh On Sea, SS9 4NF

8 Chalfont Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Leigh On Sea (SS9 4NF). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in November 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while lighting dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 83 m² it's 19.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (103 m² median across 9 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2015. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£476/sq ft) was about 146.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £425,000 in August 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.