MK43 9FX
Last sold £395,000 in March 2025
8, Simms Close, Bedford
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 1,012 sq ft / 94 sq m
- Plot area
- about 3,200 sq ft / 300 sq m
- EPC rating
- B
- Elevation
- About 34m
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Price history in context
- Mar 2025 — £395,000 · +38.6% · 1 pts ahead of the UK market
- May 2016 — £284,995
What this home might be worth today
£398,000
Estimate range £378,000–£418,000
+0.8% since March 2025 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid below the local norm at the time
vs 57 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Balliol Primary School 2.0km
- Wootton Primary School 14-min walk
- Kempston Hardwick station 27-min walk
- Wootton Wood 1.6km
- The coast (coastline) 44.8km
- Lake 424m
- Pond 603m
- River Ivel Navigation 14.7km
- River Great Ouse 2.3km
- Public Park 52m
- Play Area 171m
- Sainsbury's Local 404m
- Folkes Road (Adj) 245m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Kempston Hardwick, 1.2km away
- 63 min London
- 114 min Cambridge
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,570 hours a year — sunnier than 50% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: no hills shade it. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 74 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 2, Tysoe Close, Bedford £489,995 · 2016
- 10, Simms Close, Bedford £375,000 · 2024
- 4, Tysoe Close, Bedford £479,995 · 2016
- 10, Tysoe Close, Bedford £557,000 · 2026
- 9, Simms Close, Bedford £395,000 · 2022
- 12, Tysoe Close, Bedford £575,000 · 2022
Planning activity nearby
- Rejected Certificate to confirm that the details submitted do not require planning permission… Dec 2025 source
- Permitted Garage Conversion Jan 2026 source
- Permitted Single storey front/side extension Nov 2025 source
- Permitted Certificate to confirm that the details submitted do not require planning permission… Oct 2025 source
- Permitted Single storey extension to existing semi-detached garage May 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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