5 Craiglands, St Albans, AL4 9AH

5 Craiglands is a three-bedroom detached house in St Albans (AL4 9AH). It has a recorded floor area of 94 m² (around 1012 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2013) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). The latest certificate is from July 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 94 m² the property is well over the postcode median (70 m² across 32 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2003. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2001–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £737,000 is 15.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£633/sq ft) was about 67.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £640,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.