16 Beech Road, Bournville, Birmingham, B30 1LJ

16 Beech Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Bournville, Birmingham, Birmingham (B30 1LJ). It has a recorded floor area of 113 m² (around 1216 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in May 2010 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump.

Held since October 2000 — that's 26 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 £489,000 sits 187.6% above the 2000 sale of £170,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£140/sq ft) was about 56% below the postcode norm. At 113 m² it's 15.3% larger than the typical home in the postcode (98 m² median across 18 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs).