Are you a property professional?Get qualified leads from motivated homeowners.
Get started5 Home Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 9BL
1 planning record
About 5 Home Road
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
5 Home Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kempston, Bedford, Bedford (MK43 9BL). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.
Sale prices here have outpaced Bedford HPI: 2.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£396/sq ft) was about 44.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2018. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £430,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
What this property has
Pulled from EPC certificates, claim submissions and our property model. Empty categories are hidden — we only show what's known.
Inside
- Bedrooms3
- Dining roomYes
- CloakroomYes
Outside
- Private garden
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
D58
E
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Good
Windows
Average
CO2 Emissions
4.7 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Planning history
Applications and permits filed against 5 Home Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 9BL, sourced from the PlanIt planning register.
- Sept 2018Garage ConversionFullGrant Permission
Extension: Side of property
Garage conversion and side extension and open sided canopy link to house to rear.
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£446,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 2.9% per year over 5 years.
Last sold (2022)
£430,000
Growth on file: 2.9% per year over 5 years.
Sales timeline
Versus other Home Road homes
Four headline reads against 8 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
Price per m² for 5 Home Road runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,257
Street avg £3,122
Floor Area
101 m²
Street avg 93 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Similar properties nearby
A handful of close matches in the same postcode area, ranked by likeness on bedrooms, type and floor area.
The neighbourhood at a glance
A condensed read of the local area. Each tile links through to the full breakdown on the Bedford district page.
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
2/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around MK43 9BL from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
46.8dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 40 points of interest in total.
Beautiful places to visit nearby
Curated scenic spots within reach of this postcode, served by Beautifulplaces.ai. Photography and tagging come from their open dataset.
Common questions
The questions buyers, sellers and homeowners most often ask about 5 Home Road, Kempston, Bedford, MK43 9BL. Each answer is also embedded as structured data for search engines.