1b, Ampton Road, Birmingham, B15 2UP

1b is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Birmingham (B15 2UP). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. At 90 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 6 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 74–479 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (40 versus a best of 79). The latest certificate (March 2013) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 90 m² it sits well below the postcode median (151 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £522,000 is 39.2% above the 1995 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£387/sq ft) was about 42.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.