22 Hillrise Avenue, Watford, WD24 7NR

22 Hillrise Avenue is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Watford (WD24 7NR). It has a recorded floor area of 86 m² (around 926 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. When first surveyed in April 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83).

At 86 m² the property is well over the postcode median (49 m² across 43 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a conservatory and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£638/sq ft) was about 69% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £591,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.