17 Hillcrest Avenue, Northampton, NN3 2AB

17 Hillcrest Avenue is a semi-detached house in Northampton (NN3 2AB). It has a recorded floor area of 106 m² (around 1141 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2011) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 61). The latest certificate is from September 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 106 m² it's 23.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (139 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£324/sq ft) was about 60% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: June 2021 at £370,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.