23 West Valley Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 0AN

23 West Valley Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Hemel Hempstead (HP3 0AN). It has a recorded floor area of 139 m² (around 1496 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77).

At 139 m² the property is well over the postcode median (97 m² across 35 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.6% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£456/sq ft) was about 68.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold July 2022 for £682,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.