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Get started8 Forest Avenue is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Waltham Forest, London, London (E4 6AR). It has a recorded floor area of 235 m² (around 2530 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (August 2021) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include notable views and a basement. Period features are noted in the property record.
Sale prices here have outpaced London HPI: 7.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£633/sq ft) was about 42.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 235 m² the property is well over the postcode median (38 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. Last sale on file: £1,600,000 in February 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
8 Forest Avenue's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
A a single-storey side extension application was refused at 8 Forest Avenue in 2022.
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Lawful development certificate (Proposed) for the construction of a single storey side extension.
Price for 8 Forest Avenue has grown more than fourfold since the 1996 starting point.
£1,529,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.6% per year over 26 years.
£1,600,000
Growth on file: 7.6% per year over 26 years.
On price per m², 8 Forest Avenue stands well clear of the street.
Price per m²
£6,809
Street avg £5,218
Floor Area
235 m²
Street avg 235 m²
Habitable Rooms
8 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
5/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.0 km
Bury Road — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.0dB

Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Construction of a single storey side extension (New Conservation Area).
1 more application for this property
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28 February 2022Most recent
£1,600,000
+89.3%over 14 years11 July 2007
£845,000
+30.0%over 4 years27 March 2003
£650,000
+170.8%over 6 years30 April 1996
£240,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in E4 6AR: £1,150,000 (2023–2018).
Street avg 9 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
14.0 t/year
Street avg 9.8 t/year
E4 6LZ
Closest school
0.7 km
St Mary's Catholic Primary School. 19 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.9dB
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