18 Elm Close, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford, CM22 6SF

18 Elm Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6SF). It has a recorded floor area of 52 m² (around 560 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 52 m² it sits well below the postcode median (86 m² across 16 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £343,000 is 14.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£536/sq ft) was about 92.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £300,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.