Flat A, 36 Goldington Avenue, Bedford, MK40 3BY

Flat A is an end-of-terrace house in Bedford (MK40 3BY). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 40 m² it's 20% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (50 m² median across 76 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £168,000 in August 2022. Across the public record there are 4 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 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£390/sq ft) was about 129.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode.