31a, Guildford Street, Luton, LU1 2NQ

31a is an end-of-terrace house in Luton (LU1 2NQ). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1900-1929. The latest certificate (August 2012) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since October 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 75 m² the property is well over the postcode median (36 m² across 49 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. Today's modelled estimate of £226,000 sits 137.9% above the 2000 sale of £95,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£118/sq ft) was about 41.1% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 3 refused. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations.