174a, High Town Road, Luton, LU2 0DL

174a is a mid-terrace house in Luton (LU2 0DL). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 958 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2021) shows a D (score 55), a step below the typical UK home. When first surveyed in October 2010 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). At 89 m² this is the 20th smallest of 27 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 24–130 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C across 27 units on file.

Across 1995–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £249,000 is 23.4% below the 2021 sale of £325,000, below the original sale price, which typically signals condition or completion-status changes worth verifying. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£339/sq ft) was about 148.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 89 m² the property is well over the postcode median (53 m² across 26 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £325,000 in July 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.