53 St James Road, Watford, WD18 0DY

53 St James Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Watford (WD18 0DY). It has a recorded floor area of 106 m² (around 1141 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2017) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. Other recorded features include a basement. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 106 m² it's 26.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (84 m² median across 30 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs). Across 1997–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £538,000 is 14.5% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£412/sq ft) was about 77.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last changed hands 8 years ago, in March 2018.