23 Bedford Road, Houghton Conquest, Bedford, MK45 3LS

23 Bedford Road is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Houghton Conquest, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 3LS). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band B. The property has underfloor heating on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows a D (score 58), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 56 m² it sits well below the postcode median (93 m² across 19 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Most recent transfer: March 2022 at £210,000. Across the public record there are 6 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2000–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £246,000 is 17.1% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£348/sq ft) was about 59% above the typical sold price in the postcode.