10 Farquhar Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3RB

10 Farquhar Road is an eight-bedroom detached house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, Birmingham (B15 3RB). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 965 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band H. There is a swimming pool on the plot, uncommon for the area. Other recorded features include outbuildings and attached land beyond the plot. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since February 2009. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 55). The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 2008 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 16.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £2,996,000 is 39.3% above the 2008 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£2,228/sq ft) was about 547.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 7 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 2 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations. At 90 m² it sits well below the postcode median (369 m² across 6 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs).