5 Harlesden Road, St Albans, AL1 4LE

5 Harlesden Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in St Albans (AL1 4LE). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1045 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2011) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 59). The latest certificate is from October 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a basement. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

Held since July 2001 — that's 25 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Today's modelled estimate of £751,000 sits 212.9% above the 2001 sale of £240,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£230/sq ft) was about 40.8% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion, an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs).