2 Birch Close, Romford, RM7 8ES

2 Birch Close is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Romford (RM7 8ES). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2021) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 130 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 38 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 87% of similar EPCs). Across 2008–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£382/sq ft) was about 50.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2021 at £535,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2025.