2 Bury Villas, Bambers Green, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6PB

2 Bury Villas is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6PB). It has a recorded floor area of 118 m² (around 1270 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (December 2023) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in September 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 118 m² the property is well over the postcode median (71 m² across 7 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 4 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension and an annexe, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £511,000 is 11.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£362/sq ft) was about 23.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £460,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.