5 Burgess Close, Haynes, Bedford, MK45 3PB

5 Burgess Close is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Haynes, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 3PB). It has a recorded floor area of 40 m² (around 431 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (February 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 90), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.

Last sale on file: £200,000 in August 2022. Across the public record there are 5 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. At 40 m² it's 18.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (49 m² median across 10 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£465/sq ft) was about 123.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode.