97 Empress Avenue, Ilford, IG1 3DG

97 Empress Avenue is an end-of-terrace house in Ilford (IG1 3DG). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since September 2012. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump.

At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (95 m² across 24 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: February 2022 at £640,000. 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. One planning record on file: a loft conversion approved in 2006. Past consents include a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £707,000 is 10.5% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£422/sq ft) was about 88.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.