53 Alexandra Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 4AQ

53 Alexandra Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Hemel Hempstead (HP2 4AQ). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1259 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a balcony.

At 117 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 30 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 87% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: subdivision approved in 2011. Past consents include subdivision, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£427/sq ft) was about 39% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2022 at £538,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.