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

31 Bedford Road is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Houghton Conquest, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 3LS). It has a recorded floor area of 135 m² (around 1453 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 135 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 3 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension and a garage conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £429,000 is 14.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£258/sq ft) was about 18.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: April 2021 at £375,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.