Apartment 12a, 28 Cawdor Crescent, Birmingham, B16 8XQ

Apartment 12a is a semi-detached house in Birmingham (B16 8XQ). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2007-2011 and council tax band B. At 49 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (49–60 m²). The building's EPC ratings span C to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (79 versus a best of 84). The latest certificate (October 2025) shows a C (score 79), near the top of the C band. Earlier certificates rated it B (November 2015); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good and window efficiency dropped from Very Good to Average.

At 49 m² it's 15.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (58 m² median across 17 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). Across 2015–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£322/sq ft) was about 75.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold June 2021 for £170,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.