17 Rye Crescent, Cople, Bedford, MK44 3TJ

17 Rye Crescent is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Cople, Bedford, Bedford (MK44 3TJ). It has a recorded floor area of 111 m² (around 1195 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2020) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

At 111 m² the property is well over the postcode median (59 m² across 46 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 76% of similar EPCs). Across 2008–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £430,000 is 19.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£301/sq ft) was about 98.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £360,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.