Orb, Apartment 18, 104 Carver Street, Birmingham, B1 3AP

Orb is a mid-terrace house in Birmingham (B1 3AP). It has a recorded floor area of 42 m² (around 452 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. At 42 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across Orb (42–108 m²). The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the top. The latest certificate (March 2023) returns a B (score 84), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in August 2012 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 42 m² it sits well below the postcode median (65 m² across 36 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 89% of similar EPCs). Across 2003–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£376/sq ft) was about 55.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £169,950 in July 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.