Apartment 1, 106 Highbury New Park, Islington, London, N5 2DR

Apartment 1 is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Islington, London, London (N5 2DR). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. At 78 m² this is the 6th smallest of 9 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 53–101 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to D, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (February 2021) shows an E (score 41), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it C (December 2008); the latest reading is 2 bands lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 78 m² the property is well over the postcode median (54 m² across 59 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. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2017. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2006–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£828/sq ft) was about 35.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2021 at £695,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.