14 Boxfield, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 4PT

14 Boxfield is a four-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Welwyn Garden City (AL7 4PT). It has a recorded floor area of 95 m² (around 1023 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in October 2013 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average, window efficiency went from Average to Good and hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 4.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£455/sq ft) was about 96% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 95 m² the property is well over the postcode median (73 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2000. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £465,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.