29 Watsons Walk is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in St Albans (AL1 1PD). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.
Sale prices here have outpaced St Albans HPI: 11% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £909,000 is 10.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£608/sq ft) was about 60.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 126 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). One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2015. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £825,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
29 Watsons Walk's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 14 Mar 2026
Fell Birch tree at side of house bordering Hopkins Yard.
29 Watsons Walk saw 3 transfers in just over a decade — high turnover for the postcode.
£909,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 11.0% per year over 6 years.
£825,000
Growth on file: 11.0% per year over 6 years.
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On floor area, 29 Watsons Walk stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£6,548
Street avg £6,687
Floor Area
126 m²
Street avg 68 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 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 29 Watsons Walk, St Albans, AL1 1PD
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17 January 2022Most recent
£825,000
+14.7%over 5 years22 July 2016
£719,500
+67.3%over 9 months23 October 2015
£430,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL1 1PD: £538,800 (2025–2023).
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Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.9 t/year
Street avg 3.2 t/year
AL1 1SZ
Closest school
0.2 km
St Peter's School. 33 schools nearby.