1 Lawn Gardens, Luton, LU1 3UN

1 Lawn Gardens is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Luton (LU1 3UN). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. At 84 m² this is the 35th smallest of 36 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 33–111 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. Other recorded features include a balcony. The latest certificate (October 2014) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 1995 — that's 31 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 84 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 35 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 £164,000 sits 412.5% above the 1995 sale of £32,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£35/sq ft) was about 78% below the postcode norm.