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About 26 Ridge Road
A plain-English summary derived from public records, EPC certificates, sold prices and local data.
26 Ridge Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Kempston, Bedford, Bedford (MK43 9BP). It has a recorded floor area of 101 m² (around 1087 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (July 2022) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced Bedford HPI: 8.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £469,000 is 14.4% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£377/sq ft) was about 99% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 101 m² it's 18.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (85 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £410,000 in November 2022. 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
- Bedrooms4
- Bathrooms2
Energy performance
Every EPC certificate filed against this property — current rating, recorded improvements, and where there's headroom to reach a higher band.
26 Ridge Road sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
EPC Rating
A
B
C
D
E
E40
F
G
Main Heating
Gas
Main Fuel
Gas
Hot Water
Poor
Windows
Average
CO2 Emissions
6.9 t/year
Occupancy
Owner Occupied
Sales history & valuation
Recorded transactions, our model's current estimate, and a quick read on what neighbouring properties have sold for.
26 Ridge Road has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 2001.
Current estimate
See how we calculated this£469,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 8.6% per year over 22 years.
Last sold (2022)
£410,000
Growth on file: 8.6% per year over 22 years.
Sales timeline
Versus other Ridge Road homes
Four headline reads against 14 similar houses on this street, drawn from the latest EPC and Land Registry data.
On epc rating, 26 Ridge Road runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£4,059
Street avg £2,523
Floor Area
101 m²
Street avg 93 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 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
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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
0.0 km
Road noise across the postcode
Modelled day and night-time noise levels around MK43 9BP from Defra's strategic mapping. The pin marks this postcode's centroid.
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
47.2dB
Everything within walking distance
Schools, transport stops and scenic spots near this property — 40 points of interest in total.
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