6 Hillesden Avenue, Elstow, Bedford, MK42 9YX

6 Hillesden Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Elstow, Bedford, Bedford (MK42 9YX). It has a recorded floor area of 115 m² (around 1238 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (May 2015) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (October 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 80), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 115 m² the property is well over the postcode median (70 m² across 39 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £408,000 sits 56.9% above the 2015 sale of £260,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£210/sq ft) was about 16.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On the market in July 2015 and unlisted since — roughly 11 years.