19 Breakspear Avenue, St Albans, AL1 5EJ

19 Breakspear Avenue is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in St Albans (AL1 5EJ). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 962 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2010) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 57). The latest certificate is from August 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 2003 — that's 23 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 89 m² it's 18.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (110 m² median across 10 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1995–2003, sale prices on this property compounded at 15.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £686,000 sits 121.3% above the 2003 sale of £310,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£322/sq ft) was about 33.7% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2014. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.