12 Downside, Hove BN3 6QJ

Detached bungalow · Built 1967-1975 · 114 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£12550+ yrs+6.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£11550+ yrs+5.8 pts · reaches B

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. 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

£1,488
per year at grade C
£1,248
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £240 a year — a 1.5% annual return on £16,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 March 2020£750,000

Estimated today: £882,692 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Downside: 33 sales since 1995 · £1,327,727 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bilingual Primary School - Brighton & HovePrimary0.5 mi
Aldrington CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Westdene Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Blatchington Mill SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
King's SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.84 · well 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.

6
crimes a month
48
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016983, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Downside

How this home sits against its street.

17
graded homes
63.6
average score
D
most common grade
+6.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.