47 Gladstone Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, B11 1LP

47 Gladstone Road is a mid-terrace house in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Birmingham (B11 1LP). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2014) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since April 1997 — that's 29 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 13.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £194,000 sits 314.5% above the 1997 sale of £46,800. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£31/sq ft) was about 42.8% below the postcode norm. At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (76 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs).