71 Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5AL

71 Forest Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Tunbridge Wells (TN2 5AL). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2022) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in May 2015 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.

At 128 m² the property is well over the postcode median (97 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 1996–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £615,000 sits 55.7% above the 2015 sale of £395,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£287/sq ft) was about 15.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in November 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.