5 Front Street, Slip End, Luton, LU1 4BP

5 Front Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Slip End, Luton, Luton (LU1 4BP). It has a recorded floor area of 45 m² (around 484 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2022 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a C (score 76), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in October 2017 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good, roof efficiency went from Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 2-band jump.

2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include partial demolition and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 45 m² it's 22.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (58 m² median across 40 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 78% of similar EPCs). On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£547/sq ft) was about 109.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £265,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.