13 Courtlands Close, Watford, WD24 5GR

13 Courtlands Close is a semi-detached house in Watford (WD24 5GR). It has a recorded floor area of 31 m² (around 337 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (June 2011) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from June 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. At 31 m² this is the 10th smallest of 27 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 25–55 m². The building's EPC ratings span F to C across 27 units on file.

At 31 m² it's 19.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (39 m² median across 26 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £185,000. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.8% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£548/sq ft) was about 125% above the typical sold price in the postcode.