Highfield House, Bedford Road, Brogborough, Bedford, MK43 0XY

Highfield House is a semi-detached house in Brogborough, Bedford, Bedford (MK43 0XY). It has a recorded floor area of 310 m² (around 3337 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 46), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since July 2011. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 310 m² the property is well over the postcode median (79 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.9% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£262/sq ft) was about 84% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold October 2022 for £875,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.