7 Somerset Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, B20 2JE

7 Somerset Road is a mid-terrace house in Handsworth, Birmingham, Birmingham (B20 2JE). It has a recorded floor area of 228 m² (around 2454 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an F (score 38), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 3-band jump.

Held since June 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £375,000 sits 443.5% above the 1998 sale of £69,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£28/sq ft) was about 71.8% below the postcode norm. At 228 m² it's 15.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (197 m² median across 15 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs).