29 Brownlea Gardens, Ilford, IG3 9NL

29 Brownlea Gardens is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Ilford (IG3 9NL). It has a recorded floor area of 87 m² (around 938 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (January 2010) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The latest certificate is from January 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £521,000 sits 1388.6% above the 1999 sale of £35,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£37/sq ft) was about 88.8% below the postcode norm. 9 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 3 refused. Past consents include an extension, a porch and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 87 m² it's 21.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (112 m² median across 22 EPCs).