42 Granville Road, Luton, LU1 1PA

42 Granville Road is a one-bedroom detached house in Luton (LU1 1PA). It has a recorded floor area of 126 m² (around 1356 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (November 2023) shows a D (score 59), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in August 2020 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and window efficiency went from Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average and main heating dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 126 m² the property is well over the postcode median (68 m² across 42 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2007–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £263,000 is 31.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£147/sq ft) was about 17.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £200,000 in August 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.