43 High Ridge Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 0AU

43 High Ridge Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Hemel Hempstead (HP3 0AU). It has a recorded floor area of 85 m² (around 915 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2012) shows an F (score 37), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 85 m² it's 27.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (117 m² median across 16 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £525,000 sits 87.5% above the 2012 sale of £280,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£306/sq ft) was about 19.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2013. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On the market in December 2012 and unlisted since — roughly 13 years.