2 Princes Square, Hove BN3 4GE

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 377 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls(optional, beyond D)£400typical£1223.3 yrs+1.1 pts
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£30 – £75typical£153.6 yrs+0.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£4,500 – £9,000typical£31021.8 yrs+2.8 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£4,010
per year at grade D
£3,564
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £2,498 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 September 2017£2,775,000
6 June 2014£1,655,000

Estimated today: £3,334,359 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Princes Square: 38 sales since 1995 · £2,099,100 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Hove Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
West Hove Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.56 · well above average (2023/24)
Blatchington Mill SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

7.2
crimes a month
72
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016986, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Princes Square

How this home sits against its street.

17
graded homes
55.5
average score
D
most common grade
+5.5
this home vs street
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