13 Birchmead Close, St Albans, AL3 6BS

13 Birchmead Close is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in St Albans (AL3 6BS). It has a recorded floor area of 108 m² (around 1163 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows a C (score 76), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in March 2015 the rating was D, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 87). The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 108 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2015–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £634,000 is 12.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£486/sq ft) was about 68.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £565,000 in January 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.