18 Old Barn Road, Bournville, Birmingham, B30 1PY

18 Old Barn Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Bournville, Birmingham, Birmingham (B30 1PY). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (March 2016) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2012. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Average to Good; while lighting dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from March 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 104 m² it's 22.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (85 m² median across 11 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2016–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £472,000 is 21% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£348/sq ft) was about 33.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold February 2021 for £390,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.