42 Paradise Lane, Birmingham, B28 0DU

42 Paradise Lane is a three-bedroom detached house in Birmingham (B28 0DU). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1044 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 4-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

At 97 m² it's 26% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (131 m² median across 7 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2019. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Today's modelled estimate of £457,000 is 26.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£345/sq ft) was about 23.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: July 2021 at £360,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.