18 Ardleigh Green, Luton, LU2 9SS

18 Ardleigh Green is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Luton (LU2 9SS). It has a recorded floor area of 41 m² (around 441 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 41 m² it's 24.1% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (54 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £176,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£399/sq ft) was about 91.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.