3 Capel Close, Akeley, Buckingham MK18 5HX

Semi-Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 106 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric underfloor heating

Upgrade Plan

EC for £17,000 · £8,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£836.0 yrs+3.4 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£10448.2 yrs+4.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8050+ yrs+3.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£9650+ yrs+4.0 pts · reaches C

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

£2,496
per year at grade E
£2,133
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £363 a year — a 2.1% annual return on £17,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £1,452 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 April 2022£350,000
13 January 2020£297,850
30 October 2014£173,000
28 May 2004£135,000
29 November 2002£115,995
19 July 2002£96,500
28 May 1999£67,500

Estimated today: £390,526 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Capel Close: 41 sales since 1995 · £336,907 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Maids Moreton Church of England SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
St James and St John CofE Primary SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Buckingham Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Buckingham SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 -0.30 · below average (2023/24)
Royal Latin SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well above average (2023/24)
Silverstone UTCSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 -1.28 · well below 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.

3.6
crimes a month
32
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01033951, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Capel Close

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
55.5
average score
D
most common grade
-1.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.