5 Bell View, St. Albans AL4 0SQ

Semi-Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 76 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£2750+ yrs+6.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2350+ yrs+5.5 pts · reaches B

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£923
per year at grade C
£873
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £50 a year — a 0.5% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £777 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 August 2025£640,000
3 June 2021£545,000
10 July 2014£433,000
1 August 2011£325,000
8 October 2007£320,000
21 May 2004£249,999
28 September 1999£169,995

Estimated today: £656,696 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bell View: 133 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oakwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Camp Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Windermere Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

7
crimes a month
70
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023664, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bell View

How this home sits against its street.

29
graded homes
68.8
average score
C
most common grade
+5.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.