292 St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 6PE

292 St Albans Road is a five-bedroom mid-terrace house in Watford (WD24 6PE). It has a recorded floor area of 160 m² (around 1722 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since December 2015. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since May 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 160 m² the property is well over the postcode median (83 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £563,000 sits 181.5% above the 2004 sale of £200,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£116/sq ft) was about 25.9% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, a loft conversion and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.