21 Dartmouth Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6DR

21 Dartmouth Road is an eight-bedroom mid-terrace house in Selly Oak, Birmingham, Birmingham (B29 6DR). It has a recorded floor area of 67 m² (around 724 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (March 2009) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). The latest certificate is from March 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 1997 — that's 29 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 67 m² it sits well below the postcode median (111 m² across 28 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 8 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 5 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £282,000 sits 453.5% above the 1997 sale of £50,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£70/sq ft) was about 37.6% below the postcode norm.