38 Pondfield Crescent, St. Albans AL4 9PF

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 132 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £10,000£11150+ yrs+3.3 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£7,500 – £11,000£12050+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £10,000£10350+ yrs+3.1 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

£1,603
per year at grade C
£1,269
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £1,490 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

7 November 2025£890,000
14 January 2011£470,000
9 October 2009£420,000
26 January 2007£420,000
26 April 1996£112,000

Estimated today: £935,822 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Pondfield Crescent: 74 sales since 1995 · £835,955 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wheatfields Junior Mixed SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Sandringham SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +1.06 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
St Albans Girls' SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.55 · well 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.

3.7
crimes a month
22
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023710, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Pondfield Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

44
graded homes
61.4
average score
D
most common grade
+8.6
this home vs street
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