26 Gardeners Close, Maulden, Bedford, MK45 2DY

26 Gardeners Close is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Maulden, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 2DY). It has a recorded floor area of 131 m² (around 1410 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump.

At 131 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 m² across 30 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include a loft conversion, an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2005–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £528,000 is 13.3% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£330/sq ft) was about 30.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold March 2021 for £466,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.