20 Mangrove Road, Luton, LU2 9BW

20 Mangrove Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Luton (LU2 9BW). It has a recorded floor area of 23 m² (around 248 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (August 2011) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). The latest certificate is from August 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 23 m² it sits well below the postcode median (77 m² across 34 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2011–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£959/sq ft) was about 302.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £237,500 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.