1 Bedford Avenue, Barnet, EN5 2EP

1 Bedford Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Barnet (EN5 2EP). It has a recorded floor area of 198 m² (around 2131 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2022) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in May 2013 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump.

At 198 m² the property is well over the postcode median (139 m² across 25 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2016. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2013–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£693/sq ft) was about 103.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £1,477,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.