17 Berkeley Close, Stevenage, SG2 8SG

17 Berkeley Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Stevenage (SG2 8SG). It has a recorded floor area of 102 m² (around 1098 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since October 2010. Between certificates, main heating went from Average to Good; while lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump.

At 102 m² it's 16.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £502,000 is 16.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£392/sq ft) was about 81.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £430,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.