5 Flax Mews, High Street, Markyate, St Albans, AL3 8NX

5 Flax Mews is a mid-terrace house in Markyate, St. Albans, St Albans (AL3 8NX). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. At 42 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (42–47 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to C across 15 units on file. The latest certificate (July 2018) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). Main heating runs on electricity.

Last sale on file: £173,000 in April 2021. Across the public record there are 5 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 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£383/sq ft) was about 80.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.