9 Marlborough Road, Luton, LU3 1EF

9 Marlborough Road is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Luton (LU3 1EF). It has a recorded floor area of 190 m² (around 2045 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2018) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 190 m² it's 16.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (163 m² median across 28 EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 2006–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.3% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£220/sq ft) was about 49.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: change of use to residential refused in 2023. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £450,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.