First Floor Flat, 18 Vale Road, Portslade BN41 1GF

End-Terrace flat · Built 1900-1929 · 48 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £14,000£14250+ yrs+5.0 pts

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

£1,009
per year at grade D
£867
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £881 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 May 2014£150,288
12 December 2013£155,000
28 April 2000£58,000
28 August 1997£38,500

Estimated today: £206,445 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Vale Road: 199 sales since 1995 · £333,297 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Benfield Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St Nicolas CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Blatchington Mill SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Portslade Aldridge Community AcademySecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.01 · 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.

47
crimes a month
517
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 24% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016974, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Vale Road

How this home sits against its street.

128
graded homes
63.3
average score
D
most common grade
-1.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.