3 Parkside, Gravenhurst, Bedford, MK45 4JJ

3 Parkside is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Gravenhurst, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 4JJ). It has a recorded floor area of 152 m² (around 1636 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 55), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on bottled lpg.

At 152 m² the property is well over the postcode median (85 m² across 14 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£262/sq ft) was about 30.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2022 at £429,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.