8 Highfield Road, Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7TA

8 Highfield Road is a six-bedroom semi-detached house in Oakley, Bedford, Bedford (MK43 7TA). It has a recorded floor area of 193 m² (around 2077 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows an E (score 47), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 65). Main heating runs on oil. Period features are noted in the property record. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 193 m² the property is well over the postcode median (131 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£285/sq ft) was about 45.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Most recent transfer: April 2022 at £592,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.