7 Cherry Orchard Road, Birmingham, B20 2LB

7 Cherry Orchard Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Birmingham (B20 2LB). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (August 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since November 2005, a hold of 20 years that's notably long for the area. Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 15.5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £320,000 sits 60.4% above the 2005 sale of £199,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£125/sq ft) was about 43.4% below the postcode norm. At 148 m² the property is well over the postcode median (98 m² across 13 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.