1 Albert Place, Houghton Conquest, Bedford, MK45 3LJ

1 Albert Place is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Houghton Conquest, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 3LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 55 m² (around 592 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2018) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since April 2009. Between certificates, main heating went from Poor to Average; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 92), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. Other recorded features include outbuildings. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 55 m² it sits well below the postcode median (90 m² across 8 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £205,000 in June 2018. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Across 1997–2018, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £253,000 is 23.4% above the 2018 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£346/sq ft) was about 65.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode.