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

7 Elm Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Bishop's Stortford (CM22 6SF). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 967 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 69), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £359,000 sits 310.3% above the 1998 sale of £87,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£91/sq ft) was about 71.4% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2010. Past consents include an extension, a porch and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 90 m² it's 19.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (75 m² median across 16 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs).