7 Fairholme Avenue, Romford RM2 5UP

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 188 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £9,250 · £9,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£25236.7 yrs+4.8 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £10,000£21641.7 yrs+4.2 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

£2,374
per year at grade D
£1,906
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £252 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £9,250.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

17 March 2015£485,000

Estimated today: £808,587 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Fairholme Avenue: 129 sales since 1995 · £610,364 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Squirrels Heath Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Gidea Park Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Hylands Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
The Royal Liberty SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.47 · above average (2023/24)
The Frances Bardsley Academy for GirlsSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.39 · above average (2023/24)
Marshalls Park AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.26 · 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.

9.1
crimes a month
82
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01002382, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Fairholme Avenue

How this home sits against its street.

63
graded homes
56.3
average score
D
most common grade
+10.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.