Flat 2, 9 Albany Road, St Leonards On Sea, TN38 0LP

Flat 2 is a semi-detached house in St Leonards On Sea (TN38 0LP). It has a recorded floor area of 43 m² (around 463 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (November 2017) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 43 m² this is the 4th smallest of 11 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 34–129 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 11 units on file.

At 43 m² it sits well below the postcode median (82 m² across 61 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£411/sq ft) was about 162% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2022 for £190,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.