25 Luton Road, Barton Le Clay, Bedford, MK45 4LQ

25 Luton Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Barton-Le-Clay, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 4LQ). It has a recorded floor area of 117 m² (around 1258 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2010) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 51). The latest certificate is from August 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 27 years, with the last transfer in December 1999. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 117 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 23 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. Today's modelled estimate of £525,000 sits 257.1% above the 1999 sale of £147,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£117/sq ft) was about 54.4% below the postcode norm.