9 Abbey Avenue, St Albans, AL3 4BJ

9 Abbey Avenue is a three-bedroom detached house in St Albans (AL3 4BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 99 m² (around 1071 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2011) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from June 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a conservatory.

Held since November 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £962,000 sits 292.7% above the 1997 sale of £245,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£229/sq ft) was about 25% below the postcode norm. At 99 m² it sits well below the postcode median (164 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs).