54 Southwood Road, Dunstable, LU5 4ED

54 Southwood Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Dunstable (LU5 4ED). It has a recorded floor area of 84 m² (around 904 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows a D (score 63), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 8.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £326,000 is 30.4% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£276/sq ft) was about 81.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 84 m² the property is well over the postcode median (62 m² across 36 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £250,000 in June 2019. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a porch, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.