8a Houghton Mansions, Houghton Road, Dunstable, LU6 1DD

8a Houghton Mansions is a two-bedroom property in Dunstable (LU6 1DD). It has a recorded floor area of 64 m² (around 689 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 64 m² this is the largest unit on EPC record across the building (32–64 m²). The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 9 units on file. The latest certificate (April 2012) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The latest certificate is from April 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 64 m² the property is well over the postcode median (47 m² across 8 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Sold December 2021 for £133,000. Across the public record there are 5 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 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £162,000 is 21.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£193/sq ft) was about 111.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode.