34 Alma Road, St Albans, AL1 3BW

34 Alma Road is a five-bedroom detached house in St Albans (AL1 3BW). It has a recorded floor area of 287 m² (around 3089 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 71).

Untraded for 18 years, with the last transfer in March 2008. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 287 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1995–2008, sale prices on this property compounded at 16.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,571,000 sits 76.5% above the 2008 sale of £890,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£288/sq ft) was about 30.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused.