Apartment 37, 42 Ryland Street, Birmingham, B16 8BZ

Apartment 37 is an end-of-terrace house in Birmingham (B16 8BZ). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows a D (score 65), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since April 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 80). Main heating runs on electricity. At 49 m² this is the 62nd smallest of 78 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 24–100 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 78 units on file.

At 49 m² the property is well over the postcode median (32 m² across 77 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. 9 years since the last transfer (June 2017). Across 2004–2017, sale prices on this property compounded at 0.6% per year.