30 Benson Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 4PH

30 Benson Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kings Heath, Birmingham, Birmingham (B14 4PH). It has a recorded floor area of 119 m² (around 1281 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 8.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£212/sq ft) was about 38% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 119 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs). Sold July 2022 for £272,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.