39 Longcroft Drive, Barton Le Clay, Bedford, MK45 4SF

39 Longcroft Drive is a four-bedroom detached house in Barton-Le-Clay, Bedford, Bedford (MK45 4SF). It has a recorded floor area of 159 m² (around 1711 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on lpg. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 159 m² the property is well over the postcode median (60 m² across 26 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. Across 1999–2024, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£356/sq ft) was about 57.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £610,000 in November 2024.