1 Rookery Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 7DG

1 Rookery Road is a one-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Selly Oak, Birmingham, Birmingham (B29 7DG). It has a recorded floor area of 90 m² (around 969 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2018) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since May 2017. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 6.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£434/sq ft) was about 278% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 90 m² it's 18.9% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (111 m² median across 36 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 1 bedrooms is on the smaller side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. It changed hands recently, sold February 2025 for £420,000. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.