20 Birch Croft, Erdington, Birmingham, B24 0BP

20 Birch Croft is a semi-detached house in Erdington, Birmingham, Birmingham (B24 0BP). It has a recorded floor area of 73 m² (around 786 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 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 £239,000 sits 301.7% above the 1998 sale of £59,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£76/sq ft) was about 54% below the postcode norm. At 73 m² it's 17% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (88 m² median across 21 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs).