489 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG2 6ER

489 Cranbrook Road is an end-of-terrace house in Ilford (IG2 6ER). It has a recorded floor area of 136 m² (around 1464 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an E (score 39), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Today's modelled estimate of £561,000 is 14.4% below the 2021 sale of £655,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£447/sq ft) was about 45.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 136 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 18 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. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £655,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.