298 St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 6PE

298 St Albans Road is a mid-terrace house in Watford (WD24 6PE). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

Held since May 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (83 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Today's modelled estimate of £465,000 sits 117.8% above the 2005 sale of £213,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£141/sq ft) was about 24.3% below the postcode norm. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include HMO conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.