13 The Leys, St Albans, AL4 9HD

13 The Leys is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in St Albans (AL4 9HD). It has a recorded floor area of 37 m² (around 398 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 95), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 37 m² it sits well below the postcode median (61 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1999–2015, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £284,000 is 24.3% above the 2015 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£574/sq ft) was about 82.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in December 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.