23 Croft Road, Ware, SG12 0BD

23 Croft Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Ware (SG12 0BD). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since September 2020. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 75).

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £647,000 is 16.6% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£397/sq ft) was about 24.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 130 m² the property is well over the postcode median (89 m² across 28 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold March 2021 for £555,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.