28 Forest Road, Loughton, IG10 1DX

28 Forest Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Loughton (IG10 1DX). It has a recorded floor area of 127 m² (around 1367 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a C (score 72). The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since May 2010. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83). Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 127 m² the property is well over the postcode median (74 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Last sale on file: £718,000 in February 2021. 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£525/sq ft) was about 80.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.