15 Lansdowne Road, Bedford, MK40 2BY

15 Lansdowne Road is a seven-bedroom detached house in Bedford (MK40 2BY). It has a recorded floor area of 343 m² (around 3692 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 61), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it C (July 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79).

Sale prices here have outpaced Bedford HPI: 4.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £1,104,000 is 12.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£265/sq ft) was about 18.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 343 m² the property is well over the postcode median (159 m² across 32 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 20 planning records sit against the property, 18 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include new windows and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £980,000 in April 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.