4 The Sycamores, Baldock, SG7 5BJ

4 The Sycamores is a four-bedroom detached house in Baldock (SG7 5BJ). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2021) returns a high B (score 89), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in June 2013 the rating was D, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

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 12.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£473/sq ft) was about 54.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 113 m² it's 16.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (135 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Last sale on file: £575,000 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.