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Get started38 Manford Cross is an end-of-terrace house in Chigwell (IG7 4AB). It has a recorded floor area of 155 m² (around 1668 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 2-band jump.
At 155 m² the property is well over the postcode median (55 m² across 37 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include HMO conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £608,000 is 24.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£292/sq ft) was about 17% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2022 for £487,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
A HMO conversion application was refused at 38 Manford Cross in 2022.
Discharge of conditions of approved permission 3108/22: HMO Management Plan (Condition 4); Cycle Parking (Condition 5); Refuse storage facilities (Condition 6). (Summary)
Latest sale on 38 Manford Cross was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£608,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£487,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
38 Manford Cross outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£3,142
Street avg £3,659
Floor Area
155 m²
Street avg 79 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.0 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
50.0dB

Change of use from single dwellinghouse to small HMO for up to 6 people. Alterations to fenestrations. (Summary)
1 more application for this property
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6 June 2022Most recent
£487,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in IG7 4AB: £368,000 (2025–2022).
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
5.4 t/year
Street avg 3.4 t/year
Manford Cross — bus stop.
Closest school
0.3 km
Forest Academy. 14 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
38.3dB
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