18 Gresford Close, St. Albans AL4 0UB

Semi-Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 76 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £3,100 · £3,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£9910.1 yrs+1.8 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£18311.4 yrs+3.3 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£10348.5 yrs+1.9 pts

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

£1,368
per year at grade C
£982
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £283 a year — a 9.1% annual return on £3,100.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,473 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 April 2025£518,000

Estimated today: £549,018 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Gresford Close: 29 sales since 1995 · £515,444 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oakwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Camp Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Windermere Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary1.0 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.

Gresford Close

How this home sits against its street.

15
graded homes
66.4
average score
D
most common grade
+10.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.