18 Ainsley Street, Tower Hamlets, London, E2 0DL

18 Ainsley Street is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Tower Hamlets, London, London (E2 0DL). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (June 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and hot-water efficiency went from Poor to Average; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. At 88 m² this is the 16th smallest of 21 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 65–110 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 21 units on file.

At 88 m² it's 23.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (71 m² median across 20 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£734/sq ft) was about 165.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2022 at £695,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.