86 Holywell Hill, St Albans, AL1 1DH

86 Holywell Hill is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in St Albans (AL1 1DH). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2009) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 56). The latest certificate is from September 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 79 m² the property is well over the postcode median (60 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2010–2012, sale prices on this property compounded at 23.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £711,000 is 38.1% above the 2012 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£606/sq ft) was about 65.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in July 2012 and unlisted since — roughly 14 years.