20 Abbey Mews, Dunstable, LU6 3PJ

20 Abbey Mews is a two-bedroom detached house in Dunstable (LU6 3PJ). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. At 56 m² this is the 51st smallest of 53 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 39–57 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. Other recorded features include a balcony. The latest certificate (June 2024) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

Held since August 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 56 m² the property is well over the postcode median (42 m² across 52 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2000–2002, sale prices on this property compounded at 23.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £175,000 sits 96.6% above the 2002 sale of £89,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£148/sq ft) was about 22% below the postcode norm.