27 Watsons Walk is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in St Albans (AL1 1PD). It has a recorded floor area of 112 m² (around 1206 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.
Sale prices here have outpaced St Albans HPI: 7.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£705/sq ft) was about 85.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 112 m² the property is well over the postcode median (52 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). It changed hands recently, sold May 2025 for £850,000. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2021.
27 Watsons Walk's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
First floor rear extension
Latest sale on 27 Watsons Walk was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£830,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.5% per year over 28 years.
£850,000
Growth on file: 7.5% per year over 28 years.
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27 Watsons Walk is notably below the street on years held.
Price per m²
£7,589
Street avg £6,629
Floor Area
112 m²
Street avg 69 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 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
0.3 km
Cottonmill Crescent — bus stop.
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Full planning data for 27 Watsons Walk, St Albans, AL1 1PD
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9 May 2025Most recent
£850,000
+25.0%over 3 years1 September 2021
£680,000
+300.1%over 22 years12 August 1999
£169,950
+55.9%over 2 years18 December 1996
£109,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL1 1PD: £465,000 (2024–2023).
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CO₂ Emissions
7.5 t/year
Street avg 3.2 t/year
AL1 1JW
Closest school
0.2 km
St Peter's School. 33 schools nearby.