18 Dickens Close, St Albans, AL3 5PP

18 Dickens Close is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in St Albans (AL3 5PP). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (June 2023) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80).

At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (94 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £975,000 in October 2023. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2002–2023, sale prices on this property compounded at 11.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£713/sq ft) was about 97.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.