23 Main Road, Biddenham, Bedford, MK40 4BB

23 Main Road is a three-bedroom detached house in Biddenham, Bedford, Bedford (MK40 4BB). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

Held since August 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced Bedford HPI: 12.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £503,000 sits 101.2% above the 2002 sale of £250,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£223/sq ft) was about 27.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 104 m² it sits well below the postcode median (319 m² across 13 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 77% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused.