1 Hopkins Yard, Watsons Walk, St Albans, AL1 1PD

1 Hopkins Yard is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in St Albans (AL1 1PD). It has a recorded floor area of 48 m² (around 517 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a C (score 73). The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since March 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 89).

Sold May 2021 for £450,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2018. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £500,000 is 11.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£871/sq ft) was about 130.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 48 m² it's 18.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (59 m² median across 26 EPCs).