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.
Sale prices here have outpaced St Albans HPI: 23% per year against 0% for the wider region. 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. 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. On the market in July 2012 and unlisted since — roughly 14 years.
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86 Holywell Hill sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 04 Sept 2019
86 Holywell Hill has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
5applications of note in the surrounding area
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86 Holywell Hill saw 3 transfers in just over a decade — high turnover for the postcode.
£711,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 23.0% per year over 2 years.
£515,000
Growth on file: 23.0% per year over 2 years.
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86 Holywell Hill is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£6,523
Street avg £5,618
Floor Area
79 m²
Street avg 87 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Belmont Hill — bus stop.
Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
9 July 2012Most recent
£515,000
+10.8%over 1 year21 December 2010
£465,000
+50.0%over 11 months27 January 2010
£310,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL1 1DH: £480,000 (2024–2020).
CO₂ Emissions
5.1 t/year
Street avg 3.8 t/year
AL1 1TT
Closest school
0.0 km
The Abbey Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Albans. 28 schools nearby.
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