Model valuation£417,0008 Busby Close
Local market context
13 Church Street is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in St Albans (AL3 5NG). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2018) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump.
Sold June 2021 for £505,000. 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 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £578,000 is 14.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£757/sq ft) was about 89% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 62 m² it's 16.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (74 m² median across 30 EPCs).
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
Certificate validity
Valid until 24 September 2028
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13 Church Street has no planning applications on record.
But the area is active
4 notable applications nearby — larger schemes and conversions that could reshape the street. The report maps them all.
13 Church Street has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1996.
£578,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.1% per year over 25 years.
£505,000
Growth on file: 7.1% per year over 25 years.
28 June 2021Most recent
£505,000
+165.9%over 20 years20 June 2001
£189,950
+15.1%over 1 year28 September 1999
£165,000
+73.7%over 2 years20 December 1996
£95,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in AL3 5NG: £715,000 (2026–2022).
13 Church Street is notably below the street on habitable rooms.
Price per m²
£8,145
Street avg £6,472
Floor Area
62 m²
Street avg 72 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
3.2 t/year
Street avg 3.4 t/year
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Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
170/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Catherine Street — bus stop.
Closest school
0.2 km
Aboyne Lodge Junior Mixed and Infant School. 34 schools nearby.
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