51 Oswald Road is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in St Albans (AL1 3AQ). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1044 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2012) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.
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 (£742/sq ft) was about 131.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 72% of similar EPCs). 4 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused. Last sale on file: £775,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
51 Oswald Road'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This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 24 Jul 2022
51 Oswald Road has 2 separate extension applications on the council record.
Extension: Part single, part two storey · Rear of property
Part single-storey, part double-storey rear extensions, and new boundary wall to front.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£739,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.5% per year over 8 years.
£775,000
Growth on file: 7.5% per year over 8 years.
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51 Oswald Road is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£7,990
Street avg £5,390
Floor Area
97 m²
Street avg 99 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Alexandra Road — bus stop.
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Loft conversion with rear dormer window (resubmission following refusal of 5/2019/1436)
Full planning data for 51 Oswald Road, St Albans, AL1 3AQ
2 more on this property, plus every nearby application and full decision details, in the report.
29 June 2021Most recent
£775,000
+84.5%over 8 years4 January 2013
£420,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL1 3AQ: £789,000 (2024–2021).
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CO₂ Emissions
6.2 t/year
Street avg 4.6 t/year
AL1 3BH
Closest school
0.4 km
Loreto College. 37 schools nearby.