9 Bates Gardens, Drayton Parslow, Milton Keynes, MK17 0JU

9 Bates Gardens is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Drayton Parslow, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes (MK17 0JU). It has a recorded floor area of 130 m² (around 1399 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2015) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 78). The latest certificate is from April 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 2000 — that's 26 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £485,000 sits 284.9% above the 2000 sale of £126,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£90/sq ft) was about 49% below the postcode norm. At 130 m² it's 22.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (106 m² median across 3 EPCs).