First Floor Flat, 1 Montgomery Road, London, W4 5LZ

First Floor Flat is a detached house in London (W4 5LZ). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (February 2018) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in November 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Good to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump.

At 73 m² it's 17% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 49 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). Across 2012–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£776/sq ft) was about 60.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused. Sold December 2022 for £610,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.