157 Cole Valley Road, Birmingham, B28 0DG

157 Cole Valley Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Birmingham (B28 0DG). It has a recorded floor area of 114 m² (around 1227 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2015) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2014. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 1996 — that's 30 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. At 114 m² it's 22.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (93 m² median across 16 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £315,000 sits 363.2% above the 1996 sale of £68,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£55/sq ft) was about 59.2% below the postcode norm.