Apartment 3, 38 Ryland Street, Birmingham, B16 8DD

Apartment 3 is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Birmingham (B16 8DD). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2019) returns a B (score 84), comfortably above the UK average. When first surveyed in March 2009 the rating was C, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and main heating dropped from Average to Very Poor. Main heating runs on electricity. At 73 m² this is the 65th smallest of 89 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 23–123 m². The building's EPC ratings span D to B, with this unit at the top.

It hasn't traded since June 2007, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 73 m² the property is well over the postcode median (50 m² across 88 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 82% of similar EPCs).