3 Appleby Gardens, Dunstable, LU6 3DB

3 Appleby Gardens is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Dunstable (LU6 3DB). It has a recorded floor area of 120 m² (around 1292 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows a C (score 73). The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since May 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good and roof efficiency went from Average to Very Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 83). The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 120 m² the property is well over the postcode median (90 m² across 30 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 73% of similar EPCs). 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. Across 2006–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£356/sq ft) was about 48.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £460,000 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.