6 Forest Drive, Birmingham, B17 9HW

6 Forest Drive is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Birmingham (B17 9HW). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (August 2019) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (February 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good; while main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 87), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

It hasn't traded since July 1999, a hold of 27 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 56 m² the property is well over the postcode median (42 m² across 24 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. Today's modelled estimate of £280,000 sits 223.7% above the 1999 sale of £86,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£144/sq ft) was about 36.2% below the postcode norm.