21 Hawthorn Avenue, Luton, LU2 8AW

21 Hawthorn Avenue is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Luton (LU2 8AW). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2022) shows a C (score 73). The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since May 2010. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 88).

At 59 m² it's 22.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (76 m² median across 15 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 73% of similar EPCs). Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£441/sq ft) was about 100.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £280,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.