45 Bedford Road, St Albans, AL1 3BH

45 Bedford Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in St Albans (AL1 3BH). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 1001 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2024) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in August 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). At 93 m² this is the 17th smallest of 24 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 38–132 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to B across 24 units on file.

At 93 m² the property is well over the postcode median (71 m² across 23 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £470,000. 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. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£470/sq ft) was about 18.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.