82 Forest Road, Loughton, IG10 1EQ

82 Forest Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Loughton (IG10 1EQ). It has a recorded floor area of 93 m² (around 1001 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

At 93 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 17 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2021. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £704,000 is 17.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£599/sq ft) was about 44% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £600,000 in May 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.