5 Collingdon Street, Luton, LU1 1RT

5 Collingdon Street is a mid-terrace house in Luton (LU1 1RT). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (November 2013) shows a G (score 10), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. The latest certificate is from November 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 2006 — that's 20 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 73 m² the property is well over the postcode median (35 m² across 39 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, subdivision and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2006, sale prices on this property compounded at 27.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £235,000 is 38.2% above the 2006 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£216/sq ft) was about 78.8% below the postcode norm.