1 Alban Cottage, Leverstock Green Road, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8LP

1 Alban Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Hemel Hempstead (HP3 8LP). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1528 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 3 certificates since December 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79). Other recorded features include outbuildings. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £655,000. Across the public record there are 5 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion, an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 142 m² it's 21.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (117 m² median across 6 EPCs). Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £722,000 is 10.2% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£429/sq ft) was about 39.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.