8 Pleasant Valley, Saffron Walden, CB11 4AP

8 Pleasant Valley is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Saffron Walden (CB11 4AP). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2024) returns a high B (score 88), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in April 2017 the rating was E, the property has climbed 3 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Good to Very Good and window efficiency went from Average to Good. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal.

At 130 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 m² across 29 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2018–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 17.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£465/sq ft) was about 110% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold September 2022 for £650,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.