40 Avenue Road, Harold Wood, Romford, RM3 0SU

40 Avenue Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Harold Wood, Romford, Romford (RM3 0SU). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2012) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 98 m² it's 21.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (81 m² median across 20 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2012–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£768/sq ft) was about 176.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £810,000 in March 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.