12 Helstone Grove, Birmingham, B11 3PN

12 Helstone Grove is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Birmingham (B11 3PN). It has a recorded floor area of 78 m² (around 840 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (June 2015); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 7.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£222/sq ft) was about 36.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 78 m² it's 20% larger than the typical home in the postcode (65 m² median across 10 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £186,250. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.