23 Bushmead Avenue, Bedford, MK40 3QJ

23 Bushmead Avenue is a two-bedroom detached house in Bedford (MK40 3QJ). It has a recorded floor area of 195 m² (around 2099 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (December 2015) shows an F (score 31), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 3 certificates since November 2015. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The property has an EV charger on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal.

Held since July 1997 — that's 29 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. At 195 m² it's 18.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (164 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £707,000 sits 257.1% above the 1997 sale of £198,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£94/sq ft) was about 19.7% below the postcode norm. 3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 0 refused.