20 Merton Road, Harrow, HA2 0AB

20 Merton Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Harrow (HA2 0AB). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2024) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 82).

Held since November 1997 — that's 29 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. At 146 m² it's 19.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (122 m² median across 19 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £781,000 sits 767.8% above the 1997 sale of £90,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£57/sq ft) was about 82.5% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.