39 Elstow Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK42 8HD

39 Elstow Road is a detached house in Kempston, Bedford, Bedford (MK42 8HD). It has a recorded floor area of 191 m² (around 2056 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since September 2011. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79).

Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £625,000 is 10.7% below the 2022 sale of £700,000, running counter to the wider postcode trend, which makes the EPC and condition history especially worth a look. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£340/sq ft) was about 87.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 191 m² the property is well over the postcode median (111 m² across 12 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £700,000. Across the public record there are 6 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.