31 Fairview Drive, Chigwell, IG7 6HS

31 Fairview Drive is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Chigwell (IG7 6HS). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a loft.

2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 62 m² it's 25.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (83 m² median across 34 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £478,000 is 19.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£599/sq ft) was about 123.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £400,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.