25 Cardington Road, Bedford, MK42 0BN

25 Cardington Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Bedford (MK42 0BN). It has a recorded floor area of 155 m² (around 1668 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. When first surveyed in June 2014 the rating was F, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good, hot-water efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 155 m² the property is well over the postcode median (56 m² across 14 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2021–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 37.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£447/sq ft) was about 332.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £745,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.