Westside One, Apartment 2, 22 Suffolk Street Queensway, Birmingham, B1 1LS

Westside One is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Birmingham (B1 1LS). It has a recorded floor area of 76 m² (around 818 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in October 2009 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 61). Main heating runs on electricity. At 76 m² this is the 49th smallest of 62 units on EPC record in Westside One, where floor areas span 38–152 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (42 versus a best of 85).

Untraded for 24 years, with the last transfer in June 2002. At 76 m² it's 15.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (66 m² median across 61 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £190,000 is 25% above the 2002 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£186/sq ft) was about 16% below the postcode norm.