4 Butt Field View, St Albans, AL1 2QL

4 Butt Field View is a four-bedroom detached house in St Albans (AL1 2QL). It has a recorded floor area of 162 m² (around 1744 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2023) shows a C (score 73). When first surveyed in February 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 84).

At 162 m² the property is well over the postcode median (96 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 76% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,078,000 is 18.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£520/sq ft) was about 47.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Sold June 2021 for £907,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.