39 Forest Road, Loughton, IG10 1EE

39 Forest Road is an end-of-terrace house in Loughton (IG10 1EE). It has a recorded floor area of 63 m² (around 678 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows a G (score 1), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 63 m² it's 18.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (77 m² median across 18 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £649,950. Across the public record there are 4 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. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2015–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 14.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£958/sq ft) was about 185.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.