47 Cotford Road, Birmingham, B14 5JJ

47 Cotford Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Birmingham (B14 5JJ). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2023) shows a G (score 15), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it F (February 2022); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good; while main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 5-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot.

At 146 m² the property is well over the postcode median (74 m² across 28 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £277,000 is 31.9% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£134/sq ft) was about 18.6% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £210,000 in May 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.